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Email exchange is not a secure means of communication despite using SSL to connect to (all/most?) the email providers.
What I am not sure though, is what is a good way to send important information via email in a secure way if the recipien… Continue reading Sending securely attachments over email
I receive pdfs that could be malicious. Is it safe to view them within Gmail? What about DocHub? Is that the same as ‘opening’ them? (FYI I use Firefox as a browser)
Continue reading Can I safely view a malicious PDF in gmail or dochub? [duplicate]
I was checking my gmail account spam folder and I noticed an email sent by a known sender.
I thought it was flagged as spam by mistake so I opened it. Then I realized the content is the same as another email I sent the same person about a … Continue reading How to determine if a PC is safe after receiving a suspicious email message
I’ve heard of too many horror stories of people opening a seemingly innocent docx or pptx file that they’ve got from a business partner, only to find out that it had embedded malware inside. What should a security conscious person do if th… Continue reading How I can read and handle MS Office documents, such as doc/ppt files, securely?
It seems that a new trend has emerged in the past few weeks. While users are (meanwhile) aware that an unexpected mail with subject "Your invoice" or "Your delivery" is suspicious, it seems that nowadays such attempts m… Continue reading New trend? Recognizable and specific subject in Spam / malware mails
I have been tasked with testing our spam filtering solution, for that I need to try sending e-mails spoofing addresses, malicious attachments, and such. Do you know of an e-mail service that will allow me to send malicious attachments or s… Continue reading Mail server for testing my spam filter
I have a lengthy HTML form with around 20-26 file uploads required and some of them are even multiple. I am really concerned about how secure it is. I would really like to have some secure solution to it.
I am using phpmailer for my projec… Continue reading Handling file uploads securely in phpmailer/php
I received an email pretending to be from DHL about some package.
Given that it was in my native language, and that it genuinely appears to come from DHL, the email seems legit.
What gives that the email is 100% not legit is that it has a … Continue reading How to figure out what this email attack does? [closed]
Are there any security issues on IMAP or Exchange where you could know whether the server was contacted before or not?
Background: I came across a product that claims that it can identify whether you have contacted a mail server via some e… Continue reading By sending an email to a server, can you identify whether it was contacted before?
I recently got an email with an html attachment (as shown in the screenshot). I was unfortunatly dumb enough to open it directly from the e-mail client (thunderbird). Nothing showed up in the browser, so i was not able to type in any vali… Continue reading Is this a malware attack or a phising attempt? [closed]