Email security and privacy awareness course
Achieving online privacy and security is not an easy feat, so that’s why we created this email security and privacy course to enrich the learning
December 29, 2016
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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OpenPGP digital signature best practices
In a recent post, we discussed the OpenPGP encryption best practices. Digital signatures on the other hand are also a vital part of OpenPGP which gets used both
December 13, 2016
OpenPGP encryption best practices
Strong encryption is no longer a privilege of geeks and paranoids but is becoming mainstream. However, true end-to-end encryption is not out-of-the-box and generally requires you
November 29, 2016
Security advisory regarding Yahoo hack
Yahoo recently confirmed a massive breach of over 500 million email accounts, including both credentials and security questions. At Mailfence – a secure and private
September 28, 2016
Mailfence is not vulnerable to GNU/Linux TCP Vulnerability
Recently a GNU/Linux TCP vulnerability was disclosed (CVE-2016-5696) by security researchers in the US. Upon analysis, this bug did not pose a threat to our users.
August 17, 2016
End-to-end encryption and digital signatures: how they work together with Mailfence?
With threats looming constantly in the digital world, using end-to-end encryption and digital signatures has become a necessity to protect your data online. Read this
July 25, 2016
Is SMTP STS a major step towards email security?
The underlying 1980s transport protocol used to send emails: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is ancient and lacks the ability to provide email security. To
June 17, 2016
The Mailfence SSL/TLS Certificate
When accessing any of the Mailfence services, the transmission of data between your device program and our servers in Brussels-Belgium is always encrypted and protected
June 10, 2016
11 tips on how to avoid social engineering schemes
Following are several tips on how to avoid social engineering schemes. These steps won’t prevent your account from getting compromised if a service provider falls for
October 28, 2015