Email

Microsoft Bans Weak Passwords On Hotmail

Hotmail users will be prevented from using easy-to-guess passwords, to protect against dictionary attacks

13 years ago

Yahoo Denies Spying On Mail Users

Consumer group Which? claims that Yahoo is snooping on users' mail, but Yahoo says this is standard practice

13 years ago

Viruses Rise In May While Spam Levels Off

Email-borne malware and viruses showed a big increase in May while overall spam volumes remained flat

13 years ago

More Cloud Misery As Yahoo Mail And Flickr Go Dark

Two of Yahoo's most popular services were down for several hours for a million users, the company said

14 years ago

Security Firms Warn Of Royal Wedding Malware

Spammers and hackers are jumping on the royal wedding bandwagon in order to make some quick cash

14 years ago

RSA Reveals Origins Of SecurID Breach

RSA has told analysts that the SecurID breach began with a phishing email bearing a malicious Excel spreadsheet

14 years ago

EU Shuts Off Webmail After Another Cyber-Attack

The European Government was forced to shut off remote access to email during a five-day long cyber-attack

14 years ago

HTTPS Bug Disrupts Secure Hotmail Service

Microsoft turned off HTTPS access for Hotmail in some countries, leaving emails open to interception

14 years ago

Google Blames China For Disrupted Gmail Service

The Chinese government is behind the disrupted Gmail service in mainland China, claims Google

14 years ago

Proofpoint Launches Mobile Cloud Email Compliance

The Proofpoint Mobile email suite adds security, compliance and archiving capabilities to mobile devices

14 years ago

Union Leader Calls For Email Tax To Pay Off Deficit

Bob Crow of the RMT Union has called on the government to tax emails to pay off the public deficit

14 years ago

Thousands Of Gmail Users Suffer Account Wipe-Out

Google is yet to identify what caused the loss of around 150,000 Gmail accounts on Sunday

14 years ago

Cisco’s Cloud Email Service Killed Off Just One Year In

Despite cloud buzz, Cisco has terminated its hosted email service because of customer disinterest

14 years ago

‘Generation Gmail’ Threatens Corporate Data Security

People under the age of 25 send work-related emails from their personal accounts and leak company information

14 years ago

Google Joins ISP-Level Anti-Phishing Scheme

Return Path is getting big backers for its Domain Assurance service designed to combat phishing scams

14 years ago

Survey Reveals Business Impact Of Day-To-Day Tasks

The impact on businesses of unproductive tasks, such as dealing with spam email, has been revealed

14 years ago

Google Hasn’t Given Up On Social Yet

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said Google has give up on social. Clint Boulton disagrees, but Google won't beat Facebook…

14 years ago

Why Did Microsoft Hotmail Go Boom?

Microsoft claims it has restored Hotmail to normal service but, for some, the problem still continues, says Nicholas Kolakowski

14 years ago

Hotmail Suffers New Year’s Disruption

Microsoft claims to have restored Hotmail emails and service but complaints about missing messages persisted on Monday

14 years ago

Social Media Tools Could Lead Business Innovation

Social collaboration tools are poised to increase enterprise productivity if implemented in such a way as to prevent separate silos,…

14 years ago

Poll: Users Sceptical Of Facebook Messages’ Success

Facebook's messaging system isn't likely to replace email accounts, according to a Wall Street Journal poll

14 years ago

Facebook Messages: The Security Fall-Out

Facebook Messages is the end of email, according to Mark Zuckerberg. Peter Judge thinks it's going to have privacy issues

14 years ago

Could Office Integration Make Business Like Facebook?

Facebook's Messages is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office. Nicholas Kolakowski thinks that could make the social network more of a…

14 years ago

Cloud Move For Gordano Microsoft Exchange Alternative

Gordano's GMS Cloud offers a hosted messaging and collaboration suite as an alternative to Microsoft Exchange Online

14 years ago

Rogue Email Costs Swiss Bank Millions

A banker has accidentally leaked the details of an upcoming flotation in an email, osting the Swiss bank an estimated…

14 years ago

Ten Reasons Google Should Fear Facebook

Facebook is offering a new messaging platform designed to rival Gmail. Is it possible that Facebook could best Google in…

14 years ago

Gartner Predicts Business Email Switch-off Due To Social Networking

Gartner believes the increasing use of social networking in businesses could see email being replaced by 20 percent of business…

14 years ago

Microsoft Adds HTTPS Encryption To Secure Hotmail

Microsoft follows Google's example and adds HTTPS encryption to Hotmail to protect user's entire sessions

14 years ago

Symantec Warns Of Increased Email Attacks

Organisations and people are facing an increase in targeted email attacks, security vendor Symantec has warned

14 years ago

SonicWall Shows Off Anti-Spam Service

SonicWall has announced an integrated anti-spam service for SMBs struggling to deal with the rising amount of unwanted emails

14 years ago