6 important tips to safeguard your privacy online
Nothing to hide – nothing to worry about, right? Wrong. Follow these 6 easy tips to protect your online privacy. Well, online privacy is not as simple as it looks...
Privacy is a right, not a feature!
Social Engineering: What is Tailgating?
What is tailgating? An attacker seeking entry to a restricted area, where access is unattended or controlled by electronic access control. If your organization has more than one door or...
Social engineering: Quid Pro Quo attacks
Quid Pro Quo Attacks promise a benefit in exchange for information. The benefit usually takes the form of a service, whereas with baiting it takes the form of a good....
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...
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 and other private...
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...