Yahoo Built a Secret Tool to Scan Your Email Content for US Spy Agency

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Users are still dealing with the Yahoo's massive data breach that exposed over 1 Billion Yahoo accounts and there’s another shocking news about the company that, I bet, will blow your mind. Yahoo might have provided your personal data to United States intelligence agency when required. Yahoo reportedly built a custom software ...

Gmail’s new security indicators

Thursday, February 11th, 2016

Google added two new security indicators to its email service Gmail which reveal TLS encryption support and whether the sender could be authenticated. Many popular email services, including Gmail, support TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption to protect data while it is in transit. TLS is only useful if both the sending and ...

ISPs Stripping Encryption from Personal Mails

Friday, November 14th, 2014

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an internet freedom watchdog group, is reporting that for the past few months, some ISPs in the US and Thailand have been caught removing encryption from customers’ emails, by stripping a security flag called STARTTLS from the messages. The STARTTLS flag is an essential security and ...

New Zbot malware campaign discovered by researchers

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

A new malware campaign spreading the Zeus trojan via phishing messages was discovered by researchers early Wednesday. AppRiver, an email messaging and web security solutions firm, told SCMagazine.com on Wednesday that it had quarantined 400,000 messages so far – a number that had jumped up from 40,000 just earlier in the ...

You must avoid the Cryptowall

Sunday, June 15th, 2014

The dreaded Cryptolocker virus made an unwelcome return over the last few weeks in the form of a new variant named Cryptowall.If you were not aware of Cryptolocker, it is a nasty malware that computer users may be tricked into opening by way of an e-mail attachment. When opened, it ...