Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service. Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam, or unsolicited junk ...

An Israeli security company is warning users of Yahoo’s Web e-mail service and Microsoft’s Hotmail service of a serious security flaw that could allow remote attackers to run malicious computer ...

According to Microsoft, Hotmail is the world’s largest Web-based e-mail service, with more than 360 million active accounts worldwide. But when it comes to buzz, Gmail has had it beat for the past ...

Microsoft scrambled to fix a global outage that hit its Windows Live Hotmail service for several hours on Thursday. The company said in a blog posting that “service has been restored for all users” ...