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How to Improve Online Security and Privacy with Email Aliases?
If you’re anything like most people, you’re probably receiving dozens of emails per day, making your inbox cluttered. Not only is using only one email address inefficient, but it is also not secure. In this article, we’ll show you how to improve online security using an email alias. What are Email Aliases? An email alias […]
November 30, 2023
Email Privacy Laws: Expectations and Reality
We said time and again that, for all its convenience, email is not private in its nature. But as its user, it’s good to know there are still privacy laws that can protect your data while you’re using email services. Of course, every country has its own set of data privacy laws that apply to […]
What are the Biggest Points of Email Vulnerability You Must Consider?
Email security threats are growing fast and both individuals and organizations (big and small) are all one wrong step away from phishing, ransomware, malware, or other types of cybersecurity threats. In fact, email itself might just be the weakest point of data security as 94% of malware is delivered via email. This does not only affect […]
What is Autocrypt and Why CTemplar Adopted it
One of the biggest problems end-to-end encrypted email users face is the fact that encryption only works if both the sender and the recipient are using the same email service. If the sides are using different email providers, however, then the emails sent between them cannot be encrypted, at least not without some juggling. The […]
How to Secure Your Email Server Against Attacks?
An unsecured server can be a serious email security problem for your organization and one that can severely damage your reputation with customers. However, keeping the email server secure, whether it’s on-premise or on the cloud, is not easy and there are a lot of things to consider. That is why we’ve prepared this article […]
Using SPF, DKIM and DMARC to Enhance Email Security
From time to time, hopefully, not too often, you might notice that your receiving mail server has failed to block a malicious email. This has most likely happened because the attacker has used IP or domain spoofing in order to cover their track and the receiving MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) failed to spot them. In […]
Data Privacy Red Flags Every Business Owner Should Know
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), its Consumer Sentinel Network received 4.7 million reports in 2020. The top 3 reports were: Among these, the FTC received 1.4 million identity theft reports alone, which was almost double as many reports as in 2019. What is Identity Theft and Why Scammers Want to Steal Your Personal Information? […]
How to Analyze Healthcare Data While Preserving Patient Privacy?
Using health data has an enormous positive impact on how healthcare professionals can treat patients, reduce the cost of healthcare, avoid preventable diseases, predict epidemics outcomes and on other aspects of healthcare as well. However, healthcare providers should keep in mind to use medical data only in such a way that it can preserve patient […]
What are the Greatest Threats to Healthcare Data Security?
The healthcare industry is one of the most often targeted by cybercriminals and under threat of data theft. In 2020, the healthcare sector suffered at least one data breach per day as hackers took advantage of the vulnerabilities to gain access to the network and demand ransom. In this article, we will explore what are the greatest […]
Computer Security Basics: How to Protect My Computer from Hackers?
Your computer is one of the most valuable things that you own. It allows you to do things and see and talk to people you wouldn’t be able to without it and much, much more. But for how much we use our computers, we often forget that we sometimes tell them too much about us […]
Why is Email Privacy More Important Than Ever?
Have you ever considered how much is your free email provider costing you? Wait. What do you mean? It doesn’t cost me anything. It’s free, you said so yourself. “Well, sorry to break it to you but these email services have to make a living as well and how do they do it?” By collecting […]
Open Source Email Services: Best Options and How to Choose
More organizations and regular folks are checking out open source email clients. The pitch is simple: why trust a black box with your messages? Why is that? In this article, we’ll explore the benefits that open source offers over proprietary when it comes to email services and also introduce to you some excellent open source […]
How to Hide Browsing History from ISP and Keep Your Online Activities Hidden?
Not all of your browsing history is something to be proud of. We’ve all made searches that we would rather keep hush-hush, but how do you do that if your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is tracking all your activity on the web and mobile devices? Well, luckily there is a way to hide browsing history […]
Best 21 Private Email Providers to Keep Your Online Conversations Safe
The necessity to protect your privacy online is always present and even more so when it comes to email communication. If your email provider is not secure enough to guard your personal data against cyber attackers, it’s high time to use an encrypted email service. In the fast-paced world of modern commerce, a business email […]
Data Privacy Glossary (A-Z)
When it comes to protecting your sensitive personal data, or your organization’s data, the different terminology and jargon can often be an issue. This is why we’ve compiled this A-Z data privacy glossary s in the hopes that it might help you improve your data security. A Access Control – The process of restricting access to […]
Can You Be Tracked if You Use a VPN? Here’s how to Find out Who is Ignoring Your Privacy Online!
The idea of a Virtual Network Provider (VPN) is to protect your online privacy and secure your sensitive information. But will a VPN service completely keep your browsing activities from being monitored? Can VPN be tracked? It depends on the VPN service itself and your online behavior. Who can Track You Online? So how exactly […]
What is the Fileless Malware Attacks Surge and How to Protect Against Them
Cyber-criminals and other threat actors will seek (and often find) ways to install malicious files on your computer. However, there is a type of malware attack that doesn’t need to do that. The fileless malware attack. What fileless malware does instead is hide in your system and piggyback on otherwise legitimate processes and programs running in your […]
What is Data Collection?
For a company, few things are as valuable as the data it collects from its customers. Data collection enables companies to better understand their customer’s needs, wants and desires. Many companies use data management tools like AtroPIM to efficiently organize and analyze the information collected through various methods. So how do companies collect data? In […]
What are Cookies on My Computer?
While browsing the Internet and visiting websites, you probably encountered a message, usually somewhere at the bottom of the screen, saying: “This website uses cookies to enable essential functionality and to provide Google analytics and a non-personalized advertising. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies. For more information on […]
How to Set up Mail Forwarding
Is your inbox so full of messages that you can’t “tell heads from tails”? One thing that can help clear the clutter and make your email a bit easier to use is to set up a forwarding email address. In this article, we’ll show you how what is mail forwarding and why you might need […]