Social Engineering: What is Shoulder Surfing?
Shoulder surfing is the practice of stealing sensitive information by looking over another person’s shoulder while they are keying that information into the device. What is Shoulder Surfing? You’re on...
Tagged: Private Data
Welcome to the Private Data archives of the Mailfence Blog.
How to Recognize Social Engineering Attacks?
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t know much about social engineering. Or you believe it only aims to dupe unsuspecting victims to steal some money. But what you...
What is Email Spoofing and How to Spot it?
Email spoofing is a cyberattack in which a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate sender. They hide their identity by sending an email from a fake email address. They trick you...
Business Data: Protect Your Company From Data Spying
Ever since Snowden’s revelations, we’re all aware our digital data are not safe by default. The risk is not limited to states and governments. In particular, other companies may want...
eEvidence Open Letter
What can we do when the decision makers make mistakes and actually harm online and democratic freedoms? We assemble and join our strengths with other companies, groups, or stakeholders. With...
What is the ePrivacy Regulation all about?
We are already living in the future. Humans attacking robots, fridges leaking your passwords, mattresses that can tell you if your partner is cheating on you. There are even dolls...
The Problem with Big Tech Companies and Why You Should Care
Big Tech, or Big Four, then Big Five, or even Tech Giants of GAFAM (stands for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft). You’ve more than probably heard of them before....
User data security, privacy, and anonymity
Security, privacy, and anonymity are three concepts crucial to Mailfence. Our email suite has been designed to take all three into account, making it a unique solution. We also believe...
How To Degoogle Your Life
Sure, Google is convenient, with their various services all connected and free! But Google tracks you every time you use their services, and you probably use several of them. Google...
Can a Secure Email Provider Be Private? How a Secure Email Manages to Address Privacy Concerns
Can a secure email provider be private? Email privacy and security concerns and expectations have seen a massive rise in 2013. At that time, Edward Snowden revealed that the major...