blog.seattlepi.com - 10/7/2009
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Since the news Monday that somebody posted online the account details of more than 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail users, the BBC has uncovered at least 20,000 more victims from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, Comcast and Earthlink.
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Thousands of Hotmail passwords posted online
blog.seattlepi.com 10/5/2009 — Somebody posted account details for more than 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail addresses to a data-sharing Web site, potentially making vulnerable thousands of people whose e-mail addresses start with A or B.
Latest tally: 30,000+ hacked e-mail accounts
sfgate.com 10/7/2009 — More news on those thousands of compromised Hotmail accounts : they weren't just from Hotmail.
Tech blog Neowin.net reported yesterday it discovered details on more than 10,000 Hotmail...
IBM to take on Google's Gmail
feedproxy.google.com 10/2/2009 — The annoying Gmail outages may have frustrated the average user, but it could well have an even greater repercussion for Google with news arriving that IBM is readying its own more reliable mail service. Although IBM is targeting business with the catchily titled LotusLive iNotes, it could ...
Gmail Messages with Enhanced Content
googlesystem.blogspot.com 10/5/2009 — Gmail added a feature that lets you interact with the messages sent by some companies without opening a new page. It's called " sponsored mail with enhanced content " and Google's description is opaque. If you're subscribed to receive email from ...
Yahoo! shuts down Xoopit for Gmail users
pheedcontent.com 10/4/2009 —
Xoopit is a service that turns Gmail into a powerful media browser, letting you quickly view your attachments. Since Yahoo! acquired it, though, it's been available to Yahoo! Mail users, and now Yahoo! is looking to make it exclusive. Xoopit will become the My Photos feature of Yahoo! ...
Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Also Hit by Phishing Attack
readwriteweb.com 10/6/2009 — Yesterday's phishing attack in which several thousand Hotmail username and password combinations were leaked to the web now appears to be just the beginning of a massive phishing attack affecting users of multiple webmail services including Gmail, ...
Gmail & Yahoo also Hit By E-mail Phishing Attacks
technobuzz.net 10/7/2009 —
Yesterday we reported on the big news that thousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked online . Now Users of Gmail and Yahoo have joined Hotmail as victims in what appears to be a large-scale webmail phishing campaign designed to steal login credentials. The 10,000 passwords and user names, ...
E-mail Password Scam Spreads to Gmail, AOL Mail, and Yahoo!
switched.com 10/6/2009 —
Yesterday, reports emerged that 10,000 Hotmail account addresses and passwords had been posted to the site PasteBin.com . Today, BBC News revealed that it has discovered another incriminating list containing log-in information for 20,000 additional e-mail addresses. The new batch, though, ...
News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft —
Between the Lines
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage.
Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail’s phishing scheme leak
Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon ...
Google's Gmail hit in phishing scheme —
L.A. Times Tech Blog
Google Inc. said today that its Gmail e-mail service has been attacked in an industrywide phishing scheme in which hackers obtained user names and passwords to gather personal information such as credit card and bank account numbers. "This was not a Gmail security breach," said Google spokesman ...
Fighting Phishers in Light of Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail Attack —
eWeek - RSS Feeds
24 hours after news broke that someone posted usernames and passwords for 10,000 Microsoft Hotmail customers, it was discovered that a similar list with information on thousands of Gmail, AOL and Yahoo Mail were online as well. In light of the news, here are some tips about staying safe online. ...
Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo! users fall victim to phishing scheme —
Download Squad
Over 30,000 email addresses have been compromised, with their login info posted online, in the past few days. The BBC has apparently seen the list , and it includes Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo and Gmail users. None of those companies are to blame, though, because the owners of the email addresses got ...
Yahoo ending Xoopit support for Gmail —
TechSpot
Yahoo acquired Xoopit for $20 million in July and immediately began declining new Gmail users, but said it would continue support for open accounts. The company has since rescinded that support, announcing Friday that it would entirely drop the Gmail integration of Xoopit.
Yahoo to shut down Xoopit for Gmail users —
Webware.com
Yahoo on Friday sent a note to users of Xoopit.com , letting them know that the Gmail-version of its service would soon be shutting down. The service, which aggregates media files from users' Gmail accounts, was acquired by Yahoo in late-July , and has since been integrated into the ...
Yahoo Kills Xoopit For Gmail —
TechCrunch
Yahoo is killing support for a popular Gmail plug-in from Xoopit, a startup it acquired in July . An email was sent out today to Xoopit users on Gmail tited, “Xoopit for Gmail is closing. Here’s the info you’ll need.” It details different ways users can export their ...
Video chat gets an upgrade —
Technology
Anybody with a PC or Mac that has at least 1 gigabyte of memory and a DSL- or-faster Internet connection has the processing power and bandwidth to have a high-quality video chat through its technology, GIPS says. Both Google and Yahoo allow anyone ...
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