Sunday, August 4th, 2013
If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would ...
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Having control over an email account can be a lot of power, even though most people would probably say they do not care if someone else is reading their private emails. But it’s not always about reading those private emails. Of course there have been quite a few attacks where ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Need to send sensitive information through email? Normal email messages can be intercepted or hacked before reaching the recipient. However, you can use a free extension for Google Chrome, called SafeGmail, that allows you to send encrypted emails to anyone.
Messages are encrypted and decrypted within the browser, so your message ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
A hacker group called D33D is claiming to have accessed more than 453,000 logins from Yahoo. The group says it used a union-based SQL injection to access an unidientified Yahoo service to retrieve the data, which it says was unencrypted, and has posted it online. "We hope that ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
Today, Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has seen a barrage of malicious emails pretending to be automated notifications from Craigslist. These emails instruct the recipient to click a link to complete a Craigslist request. The URLs in these emails redirect the user to malicious web sites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit. So far we have ...
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