After years of loyalty to Gmail, I finally created a Proton Mail account to switch over completely. While using an encrypted email provider like Proton Mail sounds ideal, I quickly ran into obstacles ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Nov. 24, 2024: This story, originally published Nov.

If you send sensitive information through email, you risk someone intercepting and reading your messages. However, you can ensure that only you and the intended recipient can view the contents of your ...

Google is strengthening email security by offering client-side encryption to Gmail users, even if they’re sending to recipients with other email providers. It means Gmail senders will be able to ...

In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

The creators of encrypted email service ProtonMail have set up a server that’s only accessible over the Tor anonymity network as a way to fight possible censorship attempts in some countries.

In today’s digital landscape, email encryption has become a critical component of safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining secure communication channels. Microsoft 365 offers a comprehensive ...

Secure email providers offer end-to-end encryption to prevent third parties from seeing transmitted content. Fully encrypted email providers aren't quite as common as end-to-end encrypted texting ...

Apple failed to kill a bug in the Mail app for macOS for months despite its potential to expose private details in emails that the user thought was encrypted. Security researcher Bob Gendler first ...

Email has been around for over 50 years. Back in 1971, what is widely regarded as the first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson as a test of an email feature on Arpanet. Since no one had told him what the ...

The spoofed email has targeted close to 75K inboxes, slipping past spam and security controls across Office 365, Google Workspace, Exchange, Cisco ESA and more. Armorblox researchers have spotted an ...