Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw

Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @01:31PM from the shields-up-and-drop-to-impulse dept.

gandam writes "Israeli computer security firm GreyMagic Software has detected a serious security flaw in Yahoo's Web e-mail service and Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service, which could allow hackers to run malicious scripts on users' computers. I tried sending a mail to my yahoo account and it never reached my mailbox. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed. Mail was sent to security and secure at yahoo.com and at yahoo-inc.com. No replies were received to date. Works only in IE5, though."

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Re:Hotmail evidently fixed by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · 2004-03-24 13:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yes, Hotmail was fixed in less than 2 days. That's impressive. You won't hear much about it because it's Microsoft. If Hotmail was open source you'd be reading posts trumpeting the superior open source development model. "See how we joined hands and overcame the problem quickly!"

Well, all I can say is: See how Microsoft worked with a (foreign) company and fixed the problem less than 2 days after hearing about it. This company is clearly focused on security.