Social Engineering: What is Phishing?
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...
Tagged: Access
Welcome to the Access archives of the Mailfence Blog.
Major internet outage: 3.5 percent of internet traffic down
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,...
IFF 2019: A brief rundown by Mailfence!
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...
Encryption Backdoors: Do not work!
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...
Mailfence supports EFF and EDRI in the fight for electronic freedom and email privacy
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...
Password encrypted messages based on symmetric encryption
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...
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...
Power outage notification
On December 17, 2017 (since 07:00 am CET), the gateway hosting of the datacenter where Mailfence’s infrastructure is hosted is facing a major electrical power outage. We are monitoring the...
How to share an OpenPGP public key easily in three steps!
End-to-end encryption is an essential part of Mailfence secure and private email platform. Generally for using end-to-end encryption, sharing or exchanging OpenPGP public keys in a secure and reliable manner...