Collaborate Disseminate
Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone’s neck, targeting big businesses, hospitals, financial institutions and individuals worldwide and extorting millions of dollars.
Last year, we saw some major ra… Continue reading Microsoft Office 365 Gets Built-in Ransomware Protection and Enhanced Security Features
ProtonMail, an email provider known for its focus on encryption, is adding a feature to its mobile apps that allows users securely store sensitive contact information. ProtonMail’s “encrypted contacts” feature allows users to store contact information like phone numbers, addresses, URLs and other notes in the app, protected by the service’s “zero-access encryption.” “Zero-access encryption” refers to the fact the only the user can access the encrypted information. “All of this additional information is encrypted and no one but you can access it — not even we can access it,” the company wrote in a blog post. In previous versions of ProtonMail’s iOS and Android apps, users could only store contact names and email addresses. This information is not encrypted, because it would prevent ProtonMail users from being able to send messages. Even though names and email addresses aren’t fully encrypted, that information is protected with a digital signature. The signature makes it […]
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If you think KRACK attack for WiFi is the worst vulnerability of this year, then hold on…
…we have got another one for you which is even worse.
Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, HP and Fujitsu are warning their customers of a potentially serious vulnerability in widely used RSA cryptographic library produced by German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies.
It’s noteworthy that this
Google has handed over its end-to-end email encryption project to the open-source community – but will the community pick it up? Continue reading Is E2EMail a new beginning or the end for Google’s End-to-End?
A group of Google engineers is hoping to make progress on a problem that has bedeviled email technology for decades: how to strongly and easily encrypt all of your messages. It’s a community-driven effort — not a bona fide Google product — and it faces a big uphill climb, given that it relies on projects that are only in the […]
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SMTP Strict Transport Security is coming to major webmail providers this year, a Google engineer said at RSA Conference Continue reading SMTP Strict Transport Security Coming Soon to Gmail, Other Webmail Providers