CNET News.com: Hotmail plugs security hole - Microsoft's Hotmail today claimed victory over the security holes that have put the free email firm on the hot seat this week. CNET News.com: New security glitch for Hotmail - Security-minded programmers are finding holes in Microsoft's Hotmail faster than the free Web-based email service can plug them. HotMail JavaScript-in-Attachment Attack - Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed. CNN: Status of Hotmail privacy unclear - Microsoft's Web-based e-mail service suffered a damaging blow to its integrity Monday when a security breach came to light that made it so anyone's Hotmail messages could be read. By Robin Lloyd. Slashdot: Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved - News and discussion. Slashdot: Hotmail Cracked Badly - Brief description of issue. BetaNews: Hotmail Flaw Raises Questions Over XP Security - Late Sunday night, Root Core, a group of computer security experts, published information exposing vulnerabilities in Microsoft's popular service. Slashdot: Hotmail Hacked - This isn't the first time that the folks who are gonna give us a internet wide universal login system had a hole. News and discussion. Telepolis: Turning Tides - The significance of the Hotmail crack. Article by Felix Stalder linking the problems at Hotmail with the Sun purchase of Star Division. BBC: Hotmail Hole Exposes E-mails - Details of how to read other people's messages have been posted on a website run by a group called Root Core and it has quickly spread to other sites and newsgroups. Microsoft Passport to Trouble - Describes a security hole by which a hacker can gain access to a user's Passport shopping profile by stealing their Hotmail cookie. Register: MS Passport cracked with Hotmail - Passport authenticates a user for access to his credit cards and Web site accounts and passwords, to make life easy for on-line merchants and shoppers, and hackers and identity thieves. By Thomas C. Greene. Register: Hacking Hotmail Made Easy - Some bright empiricist from Root-Core has discovered that anyone can log into their Hotmail account and then call messages from any other Hotmail account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number. By Thomas C Greene. CNet: Cookies cap Hotmail security hole - Hotmail said it will mandate the use of cookies to plug a newly discovered security hole. CNET News.com: Hotmail bug fix not a cure-all - Microsoft's free Web-based email service Hotmail last night implemented a partial fix for a JavaScript security problem. Slashdot: Another Hole in Hotmail - Article and discussion of HTML attachment attack.