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Titolo: hotmail violata?

(30 agosto 1999)  
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                  Hotmail security hole opens
                  door to millions of e-mail
                  accounts
                  August 30, 1999
                  Web posted at: 12:40 p.m. EDT (1640 GMT)
                  By Robin Lloyd
                  CNN Interactive Senior Writer
                  (CNN) -- Millions of free Internet
                  e-mail accounts provided by
                  Microsoft's Hotmail service were
                  vulnerable to a major security breach
                  that allowed access Monday to users'
                  accounts.
                  The breach worked via several Web
                  addresses, which prompted for a
                  Hotmail username. Once a username
                  was entered -- no password required --
                  the Hotmail account appeared and the
                  mailbox was available. However,
                  access failed later in the day.
                  The breach, reportedly the result of a
                  bug, allowed CNN Interactive to open
                  all accounts it tested. But e-mail
                  messages couldn't always be opened.
                  The bug first was reported in the
                  Swedish newspaper Expressen's
                  Monday editions.
                  The breach allowed users to read and forward a member's old messages, read
                  new messages and send e-mail in some cases under the name of the user --
                  assuming the member's identity.
                  Hotmail boasts 40 million subscribers. The site was down for a short time, but
                  returned early Monday afternoon.
                  Shortly after CNN Interactive posted the story, one of the sites, based in
                  Stockholm, Sweden, was changed to a simple message, "Microsoft rules."
                  Shortly after that, the URL redirected the user to a site for a new Web
                  company. Later, it redirected users to a Microsoft security screen or returned
                  an error message.
                  Other sites - situated all over the world but all using the same Hotmail
                  gateway program -- first provided access without a password but later
                  returned "Forbidden" messages.
                  A morning telephone call made to the public relations firm that handles
                  Microsoft's publicity was referred to Microsoft's main number in Redmond,
                  Washington.
                  That call was forwarded by an operator to Microsoft's Corporate Security
                  Desk. "You should send that to 
ab...@hotmail.com
. " said Greg Betcher, at
                  that desk.
                  Erik Barkel, of Stockholm, Sweden, was listed in the domain name directory
                  Internic as the administrator for the Swedish Web site's domain, but a call to
                  his number did not go through.
                  Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn said he was unaware of the reported bug.
                  "I have no idea," Sohn said.

>possono essere violati" 
Hotmail non e' forse di proprieta' Microsoft?
--
Stefano C.
Brugherio (MI)