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Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability
chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox recently? There is a good reason for that. In March, spammers discovered a new vulnerability in the Hotmail service that allows them to script their spam sending. So far I've seen a 2200% increase in Hotmail spam as a result. We're now at three months and counting, and the problem only seems to be getting worse."
My email address is doomincubus@hotmail.com, fire at will. Am I really that stupid? Yes, yes I am, and no, there are no spam filters in place.
-If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
that you just can't trust Microsoft with anything remotely sensitive, especially your privacy. They just don't give a shit unless it becomes a problem for their bottom line. Outlook should have taught everyone a lesson about how secure their systems are. And of course, these problems are coming from Microsoft's attempt at tighter integration with outlook.
I don't know whether to be mad at the spammers, or to laugh at the people to actually trust Microsoft with their privacy, or anything for that matter.
I am NOT a nerd, and none of this stuff matters.
I'm Outta Here!
This is a troll!
You ride the short yellow bus to school, don't you?
The post you responded to was funny, not a troll.
THIS on the other hand, IS A TROLL. This post exists only for the purpose of ridiculing you and/or provoking yet another off-topic one-sentence inane knee-jerk brain-fart from you.
Dear dumbass-
Fuck you.
Let people flow with whatever the conversations take them.
I hate you.
WELL, FLIP YOU A FISH!!!!
Aren't you just Mr. Responsible Netizen!
Geez, people toot their own horns so much around here I can't hear my girlfriend's pussyfarts.
Thank you for pointing out all the things wrong with this story. I gotta get me a blog, so I can make shit up and get posted to /.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
It's easy to script something that submits spam through their web interface; access through WebDAV shouldn't make much of a difference. And I would hardly call that a "vulnerability".
It seems to be very easy to avoid this problem. Never sign up for Hotmail, never publicize your email address, run a good spam killer (spamassassin), and never get spam. There are monstrously many alternatives to getting yourself mired in the free-mail spam cycle.
Oh, wait a minute... the girl sucking my dick seems to be slowing down... BAM!!! That brick that I cracked her with seems to be doing the trick. Now, she's gumming me like an 80-year old since she has no more fucking teeth. Aaaahhhh, here we go... uuuuhhhhh.... aaaahhhhh..... uhh, uhhhhh.... aaaaaawwwww.... AAAAAAHHHHH.... UUUUNNNNNNGGHHHHHH..... UUUUHHHH...... ***UUUUUHHHHHH****..... ***AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!**** Now, time for cleanup, bitch.
Yeah.
Yep.