Microsoft scrambles Outlook-to-Hotmail associations

Adds HTTPS support to Outlook Hotmail Connector instrument for Windows 

Microsoft on Thursday helped the security of a device that gives Outlook clients a chance to send and get messages through the organization's Web-based Hotmail benefit.

The new Outlook Hotmail Connector underpins HTTPS, a convention that encodes all movement between the email customer and the Windows Live Hotmail benefit.

Microsoft added an all-HTTPS choice to Hotmail in November 2010, to some extent as a response to Firesheep, a Firefox add-on discharged the month prior to that given anybody a chance to filter an unbound Wi-Fi system and commandeer others' entrance to Facebook , Twitter and a large group of different administrations.

The current week's refresh to Outlook Hotmail Connector is a follow-up to Microsoft 's 2010 move.

"Utilizing an association with HTTPS causes you be much more certain that your record is more secure from ruffians, and that your private data stays private," the Outlook group composed on its official blog Thursday.

The new instrument scrambles correspondence among Outlook and the Windows Live email, date-book and contacts administrations.

Google 's Gmail beat Hotmail to the HTTPS punch by years.

Gmail clients have had the alternative of encoding all Gmail movement since 2008, however in mid-January 2010, Google empowered HTTPS as a matter of course around the same time it blamed Chinese programmers for breaking into its frameworks and attempting to get to the Gmail records of human rights activists who live in the nation.

Microsoft has likewise refreshed the customer review Windows Live Mail to help HTTPS. Not at all like its Outlook Express antecedent, which was packaged with Windows XP, Windows Live Mail is a discretionary download for Vista and Windows 7 .

Viewpoint Hotmail Connector can be downloaded in 32-bit and 64-bit forms for Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows. There is no comparative apparatus for Outlook 2011, the email program included with Office for Mac 2011.

The Windows Live Essentials refresh - which incorporates the HTTPS-empowered Windows Live Mail - is additionally accessible on Microsoft's download site.

Perused more about application security in Computerworld's App Security Topic Center.

This story, "Microsoft encodes Outlook-to-Hotmail associations" was initially distributed by Computerworld.

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