Email security and privacy awareness course
To mark the end of the year, we thought it is useful to propose email security and privacy course to enrich the learning and awareness of our users. For that...
Privacy is a right, not a feature!
Mass surveillance is still happening in 2021
Mass surveillance is still happening nowadays, it should come as no surprise since the revelations of Edward Snowden the NSA whistleblower, little has changed. What changed? Nothing major towards stopping...
Social Engineering: What is Whaling?
Whaling is a form of phishing attack aimed at high-profile executives. By impersonating a highly-ranked professional, cybercriminals try to trick their victims into doing unfavourable actions. They usually try to...
It is time to ban surveillance advertising
Recently, the Norwegian Consumer Council published a report calling for a ban on surveillance-based ads. In solidarity, Mailfence joined the undersigned privacy-first organizations to send the following letter to EU...
Mailfence Release Notes April 2021
We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes April 2021 with several improvements, and fixes. New Features Messages: IMAP Server: We support UIDPLUS extension. Contacts: Import using vCard: New formats...
European Tech companies warn of lowering data protection levels in the EU
In an attempt to fight child abuse, the EU is planning to ban encryption. Consequently, all communications would go through screening to identify potential cases of child abuse. However, that...
Analysis of the Microsoft Exchange Server hack
It is been more than a month now since Microsoft first acknowledged a data breach on its on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server. Attackers were able to get administrator privileges on affected...
Mozilla Thunderbird partners with Mailfence and offers an encrypted email suite
We are incredibly excited to announce our partnership with Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source email client with more than 20 million users. With this integration, Thunderbird users can create...
2020 Mailfence recap: List of features you might have missed
We wanted to give you a little recap of the many new features & changes that we released in 2020 and that you might have missed. Also, have a look...
Launch of Mailfence mobile app
We are incredibly thrilled to announce that the Mailfence mobile app is officially going out of beta. Thanks to our new mobile app, free users will be able to use...
Mailfence: A secure & private Gmail alternative
If you are reading this post then you are probably looking for a Gmail alternative. You‘ve come to the right place because in this blog post we are going to...