11 Password Best Practices To Keep Your Accounts Secure
How well do you remember your passwords? If you’re like most people, you probably keep forgetting passwords. You might be guilty of reusing the same
May 19, 2022
M Salman Nadeem
Salman works as an Information Security Analyst for Mailfence. His areas of interest include cryptography, security architecture and design, access control, and operations security. You can follow him on LinkedIn @mohammadsalmannadeem.
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Spear phishing: What is it and how to prevent it
If you have read our posts related to social engineering plots (phishing, smishing, whaling and vishing), you already know that many kinds of scams are
October 7, 2021
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
April 13, 2021
Mailfence DMARC policy enforcement strategy
We have taken many steps to protect our users from common attacks such as spoofing or phishing. However, such emails might still find their way to your inbox. While we do…
September 24, 2020
Major internet outage: 3.5 percent of internet traffic down
A major Internet Service Provider suffered a technical outage on Sunday (30/08/2020). This had a ripple effect and created an internet outage, which impacted sites
August 31, 2020
Announcement: Mailfence will stop support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 starting June 2nd, 2020
TLS is a protocol that encrypts traffic between a client program and the server. It also ensures that the software client is talking to the
May 12, 2020
Mailfence is not impacted by OpenPGP signature spoofing vulnerabilities
New vulnerabilities in many OpenPGP and S/MIME enabled email clients were announced on 2019-04-30. These signature spoofing vulnerabilities exploit weaknesses in the way OpenPGP signatures
May 6, 2019
Encryption Backdoors: Do Dot Work!
Some background knowledge on Encryption Backdoors Certain events have led to renewed calls from governments and law enforcement for more sophisticated tools for monitoring suspects. One idea
March 13, 2019
Email Headers: How To Read And Use Message Headers
This blogpost will explain how to read and understand the email header which travels with every email. It contains details about the sender, taken route
November 22, 2018