I have just come from an msn website where there is pannick among its members because of postings purporting to come from the members that they no nothing about !! this is causing some confusion and a certain amount of distrust.
Therefore I ask the question.........is your password safe from intruders.

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A.E.Houseman

Hi burwellpark,

This is a big problem at the moment not only regarding Hotmail, but Yahoo as well. One of the reasons for businesses not to use free web-based email services, eventhough some do.

The reason why this problem has escalated over the past few weeks is due to many vulnerabilities being posted on forums all over the world. They are being removed by webmasters, but then they get posted elsewhere.

Over the past week there has been a significant increase in accounts being hacked.

Nothing is 100% secure, Hotmail and Yahoo are very big organizations, hence they become main targets.

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Thankyou Hybrid

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A.E.Houseman

A few tips for you:

• Make your password above 8 Characters
  Make it alpha numeric
  Dont use a program, just press keys
  Change it every month or so

Like hybrid says, nothing is secure now, I would say you are only really safe if you are sending your password over an SSL Connection (Secure Socket Layer). This means that the data is encrypted, you can tell this by their been a padlock in the bottom of IE and in the address bar instead of http:// it will be https:// .
For some reason MSN and Yahoo etc do not do this, recently on our servers we purchased an SSL certificate so that when our customers login to cpanel its sent over a secure connection

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