Microsoft is tackling the growing issue of Hotmail account hijacking. Microsoft has introduced new security controls designed to help users better protect Hotmail passwords and recover compromised accounts more easily.
With somewhere around 360 million active Hotmail accounts, Microsoft's Web-based e-mail service is actually the leading Web-mail platform--running in a virtual tie with Yahoo Mail and well ahead of Google's Gmail. Being Microsoft and hosting a pool of 360 million potential victims paints a pretty big bull's-eye on Hotmail and makes it an attractive target for attackers.
Account hijacking is a pervasive and growing trend for Web-based e-mail services like Hotmail. Compromised and hijacked accounts are sometimes hard to detect, and even harder to recover because an attacker might change key information which locks the legitimate owner out of their own account and makes it extremely difficult to recover.
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With somewhere around 360 million active Hotmail accounts, Microsoft's Web-based e-mail service is actually the leading Web-mail platform--running in a virtual tie with Yahoo Mail and well ahead of Google's Gmail. Being Microsoft and hosting a pool of 360 million potential victims paints a pretty big bull's-eye on Hotmail and makes it an attractive target for attackers.
Account hijacking is a pervasive and growing trend for Web-based e-mail services like Hotmail. Compromised and hijacked accounts are sometimes hard to detect, and even harder to recover because an attacker might change key information which locks the legitimate owner out of their own account and makes it extremely difficult to recover.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/206573/