Social Engineering: What is baiting?
What is baiting? “Congratulations! You won a prize!” If you ever saw a message like this, there is a 101% chance that it was a
March 10, 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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Banning encryption: why is it a poor idea?
Last year, leaks from the Council of the European Union revealed that the European Union was (again) considering banning encryption. More recently, the Belgian government
February 1, 2022
What is interoperability and why it is important
In recent years, Western countries have become aware of the growing influence of Internet giants on several aspects of political and economic life. One of
November 16, 2021
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
Social Engineering: What is Pretexting ?
Pretexting attack is a specific kind of social engineering focused on creating a good pretext, or a fabricated scenario, that scammers can use to trick
December 8, 2020
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