Email Security

Encryption is the answer.

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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 email service, the security team was closely monitoring developments since

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Why mailfence is a unique secure and private email service

What is Mailfence about? Mailfence is not just a secure and private email service that values email privacy. It is also an extremely rich platform in terms of features. In this post, we’ll compare Mailfence with some other

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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. Nevertheless, we have already taken supplementary measures in the last

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Mailfence high-level security analysis

Mailfence is a secure and private email service that provides end-to-end encryption email and digital signing features. All crypto operations relating to private key, and the bodies of emails are performed after user unlocks the private key

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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 level-up its security, SMTP STARTTLS was invented in 2002 –

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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 by SSL/TLS – for which each website has a (Public Key) Certificate

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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 a social engineering hack and hands your account over to

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Mailfence now implements SPF (Sender Policy Framework)

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a simple email-validation system designed to detect email spoofing by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail exchangers to check that incoming mail from a domain comes from a host