Companies spy on your email with invisible images – here’s how to stop them
If you’re getting marketing emails in your inbox, you should know that the companies are likely using the messages to spy on you. They’re using …
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Companies use this email trick to spy on you all the time – and you had no idea
In a digital world of pervasive surveillance, many people probably don’t realize that messages sent to their email account are being spied on. This is …
Do this right now to keep all your passwords safe
Just because your account credentials may have been caught up in a data breach, doesn’t mean you automatically have to suffer the effects of cyber …
Your email and password were probably posted online in the mother of all data leaks
Hackers recently posted more than 3 billion user credentials online as part of a massive data breach compilation of emails and passwords. Read on for …
3.2B email and password pairs were just leaked in the mother of all data breaches
More than 3 billion user credentials were just posted online as part of a data breach compilation that’s mind-boggling in its scale. This collection of …
Popular iOS email apps might be spying on you
Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always enjoyed using Apple’s built-in Mail app for iOS. Sure, the app itself admittedly lacks some advanced features you can …
Spark’s email app for Android could help ease the pain of Google Inbox’s death
It can be hard out there for those of you who don’t want to default to Gmail as your go-to email service and who are …
Google launches AMP for Gmail, making your email feel more like webpages
Google first announced a little more than a year ago that it would eventually be bringing its accelerated mobile pages framework, or AMP for short, …
The recent ‘Collection #1’ data breach that leaked 773M accounts is only the tip of the iceberg
Reports earlier this week revealed what’s being referred to “Collection #1,” an 87GB pile of data that included no less than 773 million unique email …
Newton email app will actually remind you to follow up on that email
“I’ll just read this email now and reply to it when I have more time,” I thought this morning for the 367th time this week. …
Security flaw exposes encrypted email in almost every mail service
If you’re using encrypted email (PGP and S/MIME) to exchange sensitive data with others, you should consider other alternatives until you hear they’re safe again. …
This brilliant new AI will fight email scammers by wasting their time
Netsafe, a New Zealand-based non-profit online safety group, introduced an AI email bot this week that will fight back against phishing scams by wasting their …
Trump’s staff is using a private email server, and that’s totally legal
Donald Trump spent a great deal of time during his campaign for the presidency criticizing his opponent, Hillary Clinton, for using a private email server. …
New law would let the FBI read your email without a court order
A new Senate bill would let the FBI and other law enforcement agencies access the contents of any US citizen’s email without a court order …
Fascinating instructional video from 1984 explains to viewers how to use email
In 2016, email is inescapable. If you check your email less than 10 times a day, consider yourself lucky, because it has completely taken over many …
Google, Microsoft and others team to make email fully encrypted
When you send an email to someone, it goes through something called Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), a standard that was first developed in the 1980s …
I hate email again
Email was destroying my life, so I destroyed email. Back in 2013, I decided I could no longer deal with the flood of email I …
The USPS will now email your mail
Yes, that’s right, the United States Postal Service will now email your mail. No, it won’t open envelopes to scan the contents of written letters …
Loophole lets the NSA spy on your email even though it’s not allowed to anymore
The NSA and other Western spy agencies came under intense scrutiny following the massive Snowden leaks that revealed their tremendous powers when it comes to collecting …
How to stop snoopers from seeing when and where you open emails
You may not know it, but many people who send you email know the exact moment you open it and even where you happen to …
Why is the CIA Director still using AOL for email?
The tech world this week has been abuzz with word that a high school student managed to hack the into the AOL email of CIA Director …
You’re still using email wrong: Here are 9 tips and tricks to fix it
We’re waiting for some bright-eyed tech company to come up with a system to fix everything we hate about email, but in the meantime we …
Email scammer tries to swindle British comedian, gets hilariously trolled
Because you’ve used the Internet at least once in your life, you’ve probably gotten emails from someone claiming to be the deposed Prince of Nigeria …
How Can I Reach Inbox Zero Every Day?
As impossible as it may sound, Inbox Zero isn’t just a dream. It’s something you can do every day whether you’re dealing with work or personal …
Email at Work: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong – and How to Fix It
Email is probably the most annoying thing you have to deal with on a daily basis. Many companies claim they’ve fixed email for you, with …
Finally: A service that lets you charge people to email you
If I were to charge people to email me, I could likely retire before the year is done. I get more than 100 emails per day on …
Blowing off work email at night is good for your health
Technology makes our lives more convenient in many ways but in other ways it just makes us slaves to our jobs since we’re never off …
