Social Engineering: What is Smishing?
SMiShing (short of SMS phishing) is an emerging security threat. It is a technique that uses mobile phone text messages (SMS) to trick victims into taking an immediate action. Why...
Author: M Salman Nadeem
Mailfence’s OpenPGP keystore gives full control over key management
Mailfence easy to use integrated keystore for managing OpenPGP keys provides a wide range of functionalities. In this blogpost we highlight those OpenPGP keystore functionalities along with use-cases. Whether you...
Social Engineering: What is Vishing?
Vishing is a combination of the word “voice” and the word “phishing”. It refers to phishing scams done over the phone. Individuals are tricked into revealing critical financial or personal...
Virtual machine: why use it?
There are plenty of reasons to use a virtual machine or VM from a security and privacy stand-point. In this blogpost, we will list some of them that will help...
Steps to take when your Email is hacked!
You have a hacked email account? Well, most of us use email so often and from so many different machines, that it is possible that it might be hacked one...
Digitally signed emails. What is it and how do digital signatures work?
Digital signatures and end-to-end email encryption End-to-end encryption protect your message privacy, while digital signatures provide additional security attributes: Sender verification: the sender is who he/she claims to be Integrity:...
End-to-end email encryption. What is it and how does it work?
What is end-to-end email encryption? End-to-end email encryption is a method of transmitting data where only the sender and receiver can read email messages. With end-to-end email encryption, the data...
Use Mailfence for Encrypted email notifications from Facebook!
Mailfence built a private and secure email solution that is fully interoperable with any other PGP based service in the world. In this blogpost, we will discuss the PGP encrypted...
What is a Keylogger and how to protect yourself from a keylogger
Today’s advanced malware tools often comprise several different components. They are more like Swiss army knives rather than individual tools. This gives an attacker the ability to perform a number...
Tips to backup your data securely
Protecting our digital data by backing it up has become essential in light of modern-day cyber security threats (Ransomware, …). In this blogpost, we will discuss tips to backup your...