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...
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Why mailfence is a unique secure and private email service
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...
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...
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...
Mailfence end-to-end encryption and digital signatures
What is end-to-end encryption and digital signatures End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)Is a method used for securing encrypted data while it’s moving from a source to a destination. With End-to-End Encryption, data is...
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...
The Mailfence SSL/TLS Certificate
When accessing mailfence.com, the transmission of data between your browser and our servers in Brussels-Belgium is always encrypted and protected by SSL/TLS – for which each website has a (Public Key) Certificate...
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...
Mailfence disabled websupport for SSLv3 in response to the Poodle
More about Poodle You might have heard that Google discovered a 15 year old flaw in SSL 3.0, a security protocol that turns out isn’t quite as secure as originally...
Much stricter privacy laws to be expected in Europe
The European Parliament has passed the EU’s first major change to its data protection legislation since 20 years. Parliamentarians also voted for a resolution calling for the suspension of a...