Q: I forgot my password to my Hotmail Live account, and I don’t have the same phone number as I did when I set it up. What should I do to regain my Hotmail account? In the first screen of the recover ...

Microsoft has issued a fix for a scary and potentially disastrous Hotmail vulnerability that could allow hackers to erase your email password, set up their own, and take over your account. The ...

Yahoo Mail isn’t the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else’s account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into Gov. Sarah Palin‘s e-mail ...

Hotmail password recovery starts with the option to either "Use my location information and secret answer to verify my identity" or to "Send password reset instructions to me in e-mail." If you go the ...

Microsoft says it has fixed a serious vulnerability in Hotmail, that was allowing hackers to reset account passwords, locking out the account’s real owner and giving attackers access to users’ inboxes ...

When Microsoft’s security systems detect something unusual, such as multiple attempts to sign in, whether by you or someone else, they act like a watchful guard. To protect your account, they may ...

At the public library where I work, a community member from Haiti recently asked me for help recovering his password from his Hotmail account. Apparently his account had been compromised by someone, ...

Yahoo Mail isn’t the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else’s account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail ...