What distinguishes instant messaging from email?
Obsolete, outdated, and even “dead”: with the rise of instant messaging applications, many media are predicting the demise of email. Email is considered time-consuming and stressful and is no longer part of the daily life of the younger generation. But is this really true? Are we witnessing the extinction of email? To help you make up your own mind, we looked into what distinguishes instant messaging from email, and came up with 5 key differences telling us email is […]
Mailfence Release Notes November 2021
We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes November 2021 with several improvements, and fixes. New Features Improvements Mobile screen app (PWA) Extra notes regarding Release Notes November 2021 Version Check our previous Release Notes and feel free to report any found bugs/queries/suggestions, related to our release notes November 2021, to support(at)mailfence.com. Follow us on twitter/reddit and keep […]
What is interoperability and why it is important
In recent years, Western countries have become aware of the growing influence of Internet giants on several aspects of political and economic life. One of the criticisms made against these large internet companies is their lack of interoperability. This notion, although unfamiliar to most Internet users, is nevertheless decisive in many respects. Since it’s a […]
Launch of the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets
Mailfence joins 22 peer companies to launch the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets. The #C4DM supports stronger rules for large online platforms. So-called “gatekeepers” like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon must no longer be allowed to control consumer access to information and abuse their position to limit market access. The Digital Markets Act needs to […]
Possible service disruptions due to DDoS attack
We would like to inform you that since Friday, October 22 we have been facing episodes of DDoS attacks on our infrastructure. What is a DDoS attack We have already written a blogpost on this topic. Put simply, during DDoS or Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks internet services are overloaded with connection requests by attackers. Customers are […]
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 most prevalent one, spear phishing. Unfortunaltely, this kind of fraud is also the most dangerous for businesses. What is spear […]
Mailfence Jabber Chat: use a secure group chat
Mailfence strives to make the internet a safer place. We offer a secure ecosystem to help you organize your life and your work through powerful productivity tools such as Mailfence Calendar, Mailfence Documents, Mailfence Contacts, Mailfence Groups, Mailfence Polls and a secure chat feature, Mailfence chat. In our opinion, just offering a secure and private […]
Mass surveillance is still happening in 2021
Mass surveillance is still happening nowadays, it should come as no surprise since the revelations of Edward Snowden the NSA whistleblower, little has changed. What changed? Nothing major towards stopping mass Surveillance. The biggest victory so far is the takedown of the privacy shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In […]
It is time to ban surveillance advertising
Recently, the Norwegian Consumer Council published a report calling for a ban on surveillance-based ads. In solidarity, Mailfence joined the undersigned privacy-first organizations to send the following letter to EU and US regulators on July 7th, 2021, to encourage them to take action during legislative sessions and any relevant privacy discussions about surveillance advertising. Surveillance […]
Mailfence Release Notes April 2021
We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes April 2021 with several improvements, and fixes. New Features Improvements Mobile screen app (PWA) Extra notes regarding Release Notes April 2021 Version Check our previous Release Notes and feel free to report any found bugs/queries/suggestions related to our release notes April 2021 to support (at) mailfence.com. Follow us on twitter/reddit and keep […]