Facebook trials end-to-end encryption for email to end-users
Facebook on Monday announced a new experimental privacy feature that will allow it to encrypt notification emails sent by the social network to users.
Facebook on Monday announced a new experimental privacy feature that will allow it to encrypt notification emails sent by the social network to users.
Google has released research that illustrates the wisdom of its recent decision to drop security questions as a fallback option for forgotten passwords.
Google has released a free Chrome extension that warns Gmail users when they type their password into a phishing site and it's got new tools to protect the enterprise too.
Advertising companies aren't just tracking your web browsing habits--some marketers secretly monitor your email usage to discover a startling amount of information about you, too.
Weeks after the Chinese government blocked Gmail, some Outlook users in the country have reported suspicious attempts to intercept their email and passwords.
Microsoft Scroogled website now redirects visitors to a more neutral website, but the company isn’t entirely ready to let go of its Google-bashing campaign yet.
A study of Android mobile applications found that many popular apps fail to take even basic precautions to protect users' data. Despite this, some were arguing that it's not as dangerous as it seems to provide payment card information to many online services.
David Braue | 16 Sep | Read more
In a quick response to a leaked list of millions of Gmail credentials, Google has clarified it wasn’t breached and that only two percent of username and password combinations might have worked.
In case you missed it, last week's "Hashtag of the Week" was #fappening. It was a response to the hacking or leaking of hundreds of nude pictures of a number of nude celebrities. Early in the piece it was alleged that Apple's iCloud service had been hacked but the reality is far more complex.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Sep | Read more
LinkedIn has added new security features that play catch up with other social networks but also might have helped celebrities who were victims of this week’s iCloud account photo leak.
Google has made an important change to its Gmail spam filter that is expected to make targeted phishing attacks more difficult while allowing for a more global webmail service.
Antone Gonsalves | 14 Aug | Read more
If Yahoo gets it right, then the end-to-end email encryption the Internet company is promising would be a big help to companies concerned with privacy in the use of webmail, experts say.
Antone Gonsalves | 12 Aug | Read more
Yahoo is following in the footsteps of Google and plans to implement end-to-end encryption into Yahoo Mail by 2015. Like Google, Yahoo plans to use the OpenPGP encryption standard to encrypt messages. OpenPGP, which is the gold standard for email encryption, uses a public-private keypair scheme to protect user messages.
Google has denied a security vendor report that users of Gmail on Apple iOS could have data intercepted because of a missing security component in the popular app.
Antone Gonsalves | 12 Jul | Read more
In an apparent response to ongoing concerns about electronic communications being collected and read by government agencies, Google released its estimates of how much email is being sent, unencrypted--as well as a tool to do something about it.
Mark Hachman | 04 Jun | Read more