Social Engineering: What is baiting?
What is baiting? A “lucky winner” gets a free digital audio player. In fact, this offer compromises any computer it is plugged to – No so lucky huh !! This...
Privacy is a right, not a feature!
Pretexting: definition and examples | Social engineering
WHAT IS PRETEXTING? Pretexting is another form of social engineering where attackers focus on creating a good pretext, or a fabricated scenario, that they can use to try stealing their...
Social Engineering: What is Phishing?
Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a kind of identity theft which is growing in popularity amongst hackers. By using fraudulent websites and false emails, fake phone calls and whatnot...
What is Social Engineering ?
All humans make mistakes. One of the most intriguing findings from IBM’s “Cyber Security Intelligence Index” is that 95 percent of all security incidents involve human error. Many of these are...
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...
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...
How to Send Encrypted Emails: the old way and the Mailfence way
In today’s electronic world, sending information in emails forms the backbone of most businesses’ day-to-day activities. Emails may contain sensitive data such as company records, business plans, marketing strategies, contract...
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...
How NSA and government spying favored cybercriminals
Thousands of security professionals attended last month the annual conference organized by RSA Security, the security company which created the “public key cryptosystem”, i.e. RSA encryption, in order to sell...