Cloud email services bolster encryption against hackers

Google, Microsoft and Proton launched new end-to-end encryption products to confront the 50% increase in ransomware, phishing and other email-vector attacks from the first half of 2022.
The post Cloud email services bolster encryption against hackers … Continue reading Cloud email services bolster encryption against hackers

How to Encrypt Emails in Outlook (Microsoft 365)

Outlook email encryption ensures that any email you send with Microsoft’s email client is encrypted before it leaves your computer. In this guide, we’re going to detail the multiple ways to use email encryption in Outlook, as well as why you may want to start using this feature whether it’s for business communications or personal […] Continue reading How to Encrypt Emails in Outlook (Microsoft 365)

BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems

Imagine receiving an email from US VP Mike Pence’s official email account asking for help because he has been stranded in the Philippines.

Actually, you don’t have to. This actually happened.

Pence’s email was hacked when he was still the governor of… Continue reading BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems

Inner Circle Podcast Episode 015 – Dr. Galina Datskovsky Talks about Secure Messaging

Dr. Galina Datskovsky–an expert in the fields of compliance and information governance, and CEO of Vaporstream–joins me to talk about secure messaging. More specifically, we discuss the fixation on encryption and the ways that encrypted ema… Continue reading Inner Circle Podcast Episode 015 – Dr. Galina Datskovsky Talks about Secure Messaging

Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password

In an effort to secure users’ data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud servers in a way that even the company can’t read it.

Googl… Continue reading Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password

GnuPG Flaw in Encryption Tools Lets Attackers Spoof Anyone’s Signature

A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in some of the world’s most popular and widely used email encryption clients that use OpenPGP standard and rely on GnuPG for encrypting and digitally signing messages.

The disclosure comes … Continue reading GnuPG Flaw in Encryption Tools Lets Attackers Spoof Anyone’s Signature

Consumers Gain from Enterprise-Class Office 365 Features

Outlook.com numbers

Outlook.com (premium) now boasts two new protected email features taken directly from Exchange Online. It’s an example of how the shared Office 365 infrastructure enables Microsoft to make functionality available to users of its consumer and enterprise platforms as they want. OneDrive Restore is another example. In both cases, the features aren’t available to free seats.

The post Consumers Gain from Enterprise-Class Office 365 Features appeared first on Petri.

Continue reading Consumers Gain from Enterprise-Class Office 365 Features

Here’s How eFail Attack Works Against PGP and S/MIME Encrypted Emails

With a heavy heart, security researchers have early released the details of a set of vulnerabilities discovered in email clients for two widely used email encryption standards—PGP and S/MIME—after someone leaked their paper on the Internet, which was a… Continue reading Here’s How eFail Attack Works Against PGP and S/MIME Encrypted Emails

Critical Flaws in PGP and S/MIME Tools Can Reveal Encrypted Emails in Plaintext

Note—the technical details of the vulnerabilities introduced in this article has now been released, so you should also read our latest article to learn how the eFail attack works and what users can do to prevent themselves.

An important warning for pe… Continue reading Critical Flaws in PGP and S/MIME Tools Can Reveal Encrypted Emails in Plaintext