The creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach alert website is once again urging Internet users to check his site to see if their data has been caught up in yet another high-profile security incident — the incident, this time, being a botnet called Emotet, which the European Union’s law enforcement arm has …
All of the marketing emails that flood your email account each don’t just make it harder to achieve inbox zero. Many of them actually do much more than push the brand’s message into your inbox — they also include unseen mechanisms that allow the email messages to essentially spy on you, tracking things like whether …
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 done through the use of trackers sometimes called spy pixels. They’re tiny inclusions in the body of an email that let the sender track when and who opened an email, …
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 crime. There are a number of simple steps that account holders can take to protect themselves and their data from hackers, data breaches, and other nefarious activity on the Internet. …
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 a way to check and see if your email and password combination was part of this published trove. If they were, there are also some easy steps you can take …
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 user data is being called the COMB, or the “Compilation of Many Breaches.” This is not the result of a new breach — rather, it pulls together stolen user data …
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 readily find on third-party email clients, but the overall user experience is simple, serviceable, and relatively straight forward. I’ve tried any number of email clients over the years, but I …
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 thus constantly on the hunt for a top-notch email app. Sometimes, you find one and make do with its limitations and trade-offs. Maybe you even find one that you absolutely …
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, to email, which would allow for the creation of richer and more dynamic experiences in a digital realm where people still spend an outsized portion of their day. Today, Google …
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 accounts and more than 21 million different passwords. In total, the database contained some 2.7 billion records, and we already told you how to check whether it contains your email …
