Microsoft Admits to 3-Month Consumer E-Mail Breach
Microsoft Admits to 3-Month Consumer E-Mail Breach By Kurt Mackie 04/15/2019 Microsoft on Friday sent letters to some of its e-mail users …
Decade-old Efail attack can decrypt previously obtained encrypted e-mails
Unfixed bugs in widely used e-mail programs make it possible for attackers to obtain the plaintext of messages that are encrypted using the …
Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted e-mails. Uninstall now
The Internet’s two most widely used methods for encrypting e-mail–PGP and S/Mime–are vulnerable to hacks that can reveal the plaintext …
Cybercriminals Infiltrating E-Mail Networks to Divert Large Customer Payments
Cybercriminals Infiltrating E-Mail Networks to Divert Large Customer Payments There’s a new criminal tactic involving hacking an e-mail …
E-Mail Tracking
E-Mail Tracking Interesting survey paper: on the privacy implications of e-mail tracking: Abstract: We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for the unwary. We assembled a corpus of commercial mailing-list emails, and find a network of hundreds of third parties that track email recipients via methods such as embedded pixels. … Read more
Journalists Generally Do Not Use Secure Communication
Journalists Generally Do Not Use Secure Communication This should come as no surprise: Alas, our findings suggest that secure communications haven’t yet attracted mass adoption among journalists. Read full news article on Schneier on Security
PHI Exposed After E-Mail Breach at Mental Health/Substance Abuse Provider
When it comes to securing a patient’s protected health information, mental health and addiction treatment providers have to take greater precaution due to the especially sensitive nature of the data that is handled. Illegal drug users are not protected under anti-discrimination laws meaning that a data breach puts their personal lives at risk of many … Read more
Wipro strengthens security after second e-mail threat
A second e-mail threat within a month made Wipro step up security at its offices across the country, said the software major on Friday. “We have reinforced security at all our office locations in the country following a second threatening e-mail from an unidentified source,” said the IT firm in a statement here. Read full … Read more