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Vishing is a combination of “voice” and “phishing”. It refers to phishing scams done over the phone. Individuals are tricked into revealing critical financial or personal information during seemingly trustworthy...
Smishing is a social engineering attack using phishing techniques, but sent by text message instead of email. The name is a combination of SMS and phishing. In this post, you’ll...
Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a kind of identity theft that is growing in popularity amongst hackers. By using fraudulent websites and false emails, fake phone calls, and whatnot – perpetrators attempt...
A major Internet Service Provider suffered a technical outage on Sunday (30/08/2020). This had a ripple effect and created an internet outage, which impacted sites such as Amazon, Ebay, Twitter,...
Mailfence attended the Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) in April 2019. This blogpost will provide you a brief run-down of our overall experience with regards to the event. Our team engaged...
Some background knowledge on Encryption Backdoors Certain events have led to renewed calls from governments and law enforcement for more sophisticated tools for monitoring suspects. One idea that has received renewed attention...
At Mailfence we believe that developing a state-of-the art secure and private email with “true” end-to-end encryption is not sufficient. The fight for email privacy and electronic freedom cannot be...
Secure and private email provider Mailfence announced today the launch of secure emails based on symmetric encryption. Mailfence, one of the world’s most secure and private email services, already allow...
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...
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...