Security News > 2017 > October > Buggy Microsoft Outlook Sending Encrypted S/MIME Emails With Plaintext Copy For Months
2017-10-12 01:58
Beware, If you are using S/MIME protocol over Microsoft Outlook to encrypt your email communication, you need to watch out. From at least last 6 months, your messages were being sent in both encrypted and unencrypted forms, exposing all your secret and sensitive communications to potential eavesdroppers. S/MIME, or Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is an end-to-end encryption
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