What is a DDoS Attack?
Reports of DDoS attacks pop up in the news every few months. Servers crash, sites go down, and companies can lose millions of dollars while their services are disrupted. Services...
Category: Tips
Welcome to the Tips archives of the Mailfence Blog.
Protect your data when crossing borders
Anyone who has traveled to the United States will know how seriously border security is taken. In recent years, Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agents have been increasingly searching travelers’...
Email Headers: How to read and use message headers
This blogpost will explain how to read and understand the ’email header’ which travels with every email. It contains details about the sender, taken route and the receiver. Use this...
Protecting your devices when traveling
Even the most privacy-conscious among us encounter various security threats when travelling. Unless your laptop is inside a Zero Halliburton briefcase handcuffed to your wrist, it’s difficult to keep your...
How to migrate Documents from Outlook, OneDrive or Google Drive to Mailfence
What if you’ve decided you’ve had it with Microsoft’s, Google’s or Dropbox’s inadequate privacy controls and want to leave? What do you do and how do you get your documents out? In...
9 reasons to upgrade your Mailfence.com account today
You might ask yourself, “why should I upgrade to a premium plan when my secure and private email Mailfence.com offers so much for free?” This is a Great question! You...
Mailfence Contacts: a secure contact management software
Mailfence strives to make the internet a safer place. That’s why we developed our encrypted email solution. But in our opinion just offering secure and private email is not sufficient....
Common threats to online privacy and digital security
In this blogpost, we will look at the most common threats to online privacy and digital security. You will increase your awareness of common threats, but also learn tips on...
Spoofing defense for Custom domains: SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Due to the open and decentralized nature of SMTP, email spoofing is a common issue. Every server connected to the internet can send an email using your email address and...
User data security, privacy and anonymity
User security, privacy and anonymity are three related concepts that overlap. In this blogpost, we will try to explain how Mailfence relates to each of them. What is security, privacy...