Email Security: 10 best practices
Do you need email security? Email has become an indispensable tool to communicate for many people. The shared data might be confidential, or not, but you have a right to decide to keep it private
December 2, 2021
Email Security
Encryption is the answer.
Spear phishing: What is it and how to prevent it
If you have read our posts related to social ingineering ploys (phishing, smishing, whaling and vishing), you already know that many kinds of scams are derived from phishing. But it’s important to learn about the
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 get administrator privileges on affected servers, access to user emails
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 their victim into giving up on their own personal information.
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
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 right server. Protocols are continuously being improved through the release
May 12, 2020
Avoid email vendor lock-in at all costs
What happens when you would like to change the supplier that has your private email data on its servers? Is it possible to get your data back? In the following article, Mailfence will breakdown what
April 22, 2020
Why you need a private email service now
You probably know someone or have heard a really scary case of hacking or scamming. What you probably do not know however is that more than 80% of all successful cyber-security breaches begin with your
November 19, 2019
Mailfence is not impacted by OpenPGP signature spoofing vulnerabilities
New vulnerabilities in many OpenPGP and S/MIME enabled email clients were announced on 2019-04-30. These signature spoofing vulnerabilities exploit weaknesses in the way OpenPGP signatures are verified by email clients and how the verification result
May 6, 2019
