Security News

Secure Email Service Lavabit Relaunches (Threatpost)
2017-01-23 19:51

Lavabit, the secure email provider that suspended operations back in 2013 after the US government asked for its users SSL keys, relaunched Friday under a new architecture.

Lawmakers Reintroduce Popular Email Privacy Act (Threatpost)
2017-01-10 17:36

A bipartisan group of lawmakers have reintroduced the Email Privacy Act, a bill that would curb law enforcement’s warrantless searches of email stored on third-party servers for over 180 days.

Clever Facebook Hack Reveals Private Email Address of Any User (Threatpost)
2016-12-23 22:19

A bug bounty hunter earned $5,000 for a Facebook hack that allowed him to bypass security protection and access any Facebook user's true email address.

DailyMotion Hack Leaks Emails, Passwords of 87M Users (Threatpost)
2016-12-06 18:45

The video sharing website DailyMotion admitted early Tuesday that it recently suffered an "external security problem" which resulted in the compromise of its users data.

Most email authentication implementations fail (Help Net Security)
2016-12-05 12:45

Most of the world’s largest businesses fail at attempts to use open industry standards to control which email is sent using their names. Three quarters of large businesses attempting...