Social Engineering: What is Shoulder Surfing?
Shoulder surfing is the practice of stealing sensitive information by looking over another person’s shoulder while they are keying that information into the device. What is Shoulder Surfing? You’re on...
Category: Security
Welcome to the Security archives of the Mailfence Blog.
How to Recognize Social Engineering Attacks?
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t know much about social engineering. Or you believe it only aims to dupe unsuspecting victims to steal some money. But what you...
What is Email Spoofing and How to Spot it?
Email spoofing is a cyberattack in which a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate sender. They hide their identity by sending an email from a fake email address. They trick you...
Business Data: Protect Your Company From Data Spying
Ever since Snowden’s revelations, we’re all aware our digital data are not safe by default. The risk is not limited to states and governments. In particular, other companies may want...
Harden Your Mailfence Account
Mailfence offers a secure and private collaborative suite, and all user accounts are protected through standard security and privacy measures (check our high-level security analysis for more information). However, as...
User data security, privacy, and anonymity
Security, privacy, and anonymity are three concepts crucial to Mailfence. Our email suite has been designed to take all three into account, making it a unique solution. We also...
Why are Hackers Targeting Small Businesses and How to Protect Yours
Why do hackers target SMEs? Cybercriminals indeed attack them more often than large companies. Read this article and find out why pirates target small businesses, and, more importantly, how to...
Social Engineering: What is Scareware?
Scareware is a social engineering technique that aims to scare the victim into believing they have a virus on their device and should buy or download specific software. As many...
Can a Secure Email Provider Be Private? How a Secure Email Manages to Address Privacy Concerns
Can a secure email provider be private? Email privacy and security concerns and expectations have seen a massive rise in 2013. At that time, Edward Snowden revealed that the major...
7 Biggest Email Security Mistakes To Avoid
When it comes to email, there are plenty of email security mistakes that new users tend to make and that bad actors like hackers and scammers can abuse. However, even...