Spammers Using "Dictionary Attacks" to Identify Hotmail Addresses

Many users of the free e-mail service Hotmail say that within a day of creating a new account the spam starts flowing in, almost as if spammers have sunk a tap directly into Hotmail's user database and are slurping up a free-flowing torrent of e-mail addresses. And according to Steve Linford, of the anti-spam Spamhaus Project that's almost exactly what's happening.