Why Is My Email Going to Spam or Disappearing in Hotmail, Outlook and MS Live? This May Be Why Frustration Frustrated in Front of Computer
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Why Is My Email Going to Spam or Disappearing in Hotmail, Outlook and MS Live? This May Be Why

If you are wondering why your email is going to spam, or not arriving at all, in Hotmail, Outlook or Microsoft Live, whether you mean the email you are receiving in your Hotmail or Outlook account, or the email that you are sending to Hotmail or Outlook, this may be why, especially if it just started happening.

Internet deception: why is it so easy to lie online and how you can detect it
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Internet Deception: Why It’s So Easy and How to Detect It

In January 2013, Deadspin, a sports blog owned by Will Leitch, exposed an Internet dating hoax that shocked the world. Manti Malietau Louis Teʻo, an American footballer had consistently held that he was in a relationship with a woman he met online known as Lennay Kekua. In the exposé, Deadspin…

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The Pros and Cons of Using the Chrome Password Manager

When you use Google Chrome and enter a password on a site that requires you to sign up or sign in, you normally get a notification asking you to choose to save the password or not. That, right there, is Google Password Manager, commonly known as Chrome Password Manager, sending…

How to create a strong password
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How to Create a Strong Password

Every week there are reports of new data breaches, where massive amounts of personal information are leaked and exposed. Many of these data breaches revolve around unscrupulous people getting access to personal accounts as a result of weak or compromised passwords. Basically, a password acts like a gate or a…

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The NSA PRISM Spying Program with Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Verizon and Others Explained in Plain English

The Internet, the country, and indeed the whole world is abuzz with the news of PRISM, the no-longer-secret program of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) first exposed by Glenn Greenwald of the British newspaper The Guardian, through which the United States federal government is accessing and mining all sorts of user data from the major ISPs and possibly cell phone companies. Data which is potentially about just about anybody and everybody, even you. The list of companies and ISPs alleged to be involved with PRISM, by which we mean allowing the government to data mine their users’ data, is impressive (read as “scary”) indeed, although most of them are quick to deny it. However, we have evidence (see screenshots below) that even though they are denying it, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, and AOL are all involved. There are rumours of DropBox and Amazon joining. And Verizon is also giving the Feds access to their user data. But as 1984 as this all is, we really only have one question: why is anybody surprised?

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Updated for 2012! Hotmail Outage as Server Goes Down, Users Unable to Access Email

If you are reading this, it’s probably because Hotmail has gone down – yet again – as countless Hotmail.com customers find themselves unable to access their email. It’s interesting to note that as we update this article yet again, that we are just two days shy of the seventh anniversary of this article! Read on!

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Cascade Insights: Microsoft Hotmail Beats Google Gmail and Yahoo Mail at Blocking Spam

Microsoft Hotmail, the world’s largest email provider, is better at blocking spam than Google Gmail and Yahoo Mail, according to a study released by the independent research firm Cascade Insights. The study only tested these companies – the so-called big three email providers – and was sponsored by Microsoft, which funded the research to combat their bad reputation for allowing loads of spam into users’ inboxes.

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Email Providers Unite to Fight Spam and Fraudulent Messages

Several email providers that normally compete with one another, like Google Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail, have teamed up in an effort to better protect email users from spam and fraudulent messages. The new system is called DMARC, short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance. With a united front, the war against spam may have a powerful new weapon.

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Hotmail Down for Days as Countless Users Shut Out of Hotmail and MSN Windows Live

Hotmail has once again been down for days, with countless Hotmail, MSN, and Live users shut out of their accounts. The outage, referred to as a “cloud outage” by some souces, saw users unable to access their Hotmail accounts, as well as the Windows Live Solutions Center; indeed some users are still unable to access their Hotmail accounts.

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Chain Mail Claims MSN Hotmail Running Out of Names for Accounts

A bizarre spam making the rounds in the form of a chain email claims that MSN Hotmail is running out of account names “because too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the names”. The email starts out by saying “Hey it is tara and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption but msn is closing down.” (It isn’t.)