Hotmail is getting a new feature that lets users create up to a handful of alternate e-mail addresses they can send and receive from. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

More than 10,000 compromised Hotmail accounts were posted online this morning by attackers to demonstrate their success in capturing the sensitive information. The credentials displayed, including the ...

Hotmail subscribers have a new problem to contend with: an e-mail janitor. In Microsoft's popular free e-mail service, messages are being swept out and bounced back to senders as the site urges ...

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 ...

Update (19:55 GMT): added statement from Microsoft at the end. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been hacked through phishing sites and published online, according to the ...

Microsoft has acknowledged that a small number of users experienced issues with Hotmail over the last few days and says the problem regarding missing e-mails has been fixed. I don't believe I lost any ...

Registering for an account at any web site almost always requires an email address, and some people use a secondary address they don't care about instead of their real email address to avoid spam. If ...

In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there’s evidence of yet more abuse that entails ...

Microsoft has issued a temporary fix for a scary and potentially disastrous Hotmail vulnerability that could allow hackers to erase your email password, set up their own and take over your account.

If you’ve installed the Office 2013 preview, you might notice one welcome addition in the mail setup routine for Outlook 2013. It now supports Exchange ActiveSync as an explicit option. That means you ...