A team of academics has revealed a new cryptographic attack this week that can break encrypted TLS traffic, allowing attackers to intercept and steal data previously considered safe & secure. This new ...

Yahoo has started to automatically encrypt connections between users and its email service, adding an important security layer that rival Gmail has had for almost four years, but its implementation ...

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages. If you ...

Most of the email encryption solution vendors have broadened the scope of their products to include anti-phishing, anti-spam, and data loss prevention (DLP). The world of email encryption has changed ...

Yahoo Mail had support for full-session HTTPS — SSL/TLS encryption over HTTP — since late 2012, but users had to opt in to use the feature. Tuesday, the company delivered on a promise that it made in ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced a new project named STARTTLS Everywhere that aims to provide guidance to server administrators on how to set up a proper email server that runs ...

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An estimated 3 million email addresses may be at risk of exposure to common cyberattacks, such as man-in-the-middle attacks, because email delivery often proceeds even when certificate validation ...

The volume of malware hidden in encrypted traffic has doubled over the past few months as threat actors look to circumvent security tools, according to Sophos. The security vendor claimed that 23% of ...