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 temporary 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.

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 ...