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How do You Encrypt an Email?
Sensitive information such as usernames and passwords, credit and debit card numbers, social security numbers, medical info, contact information, etc. is very vulnerable when sent via email. This is why it’s important to encrypt your email to protect your sensitive information from data breaches and ensure your online privacy. In this blog post, we’ll explain […]
November 30, 2023
Email Anonymity and Safety: How to Find the Best Free Anonymous Email Accounts?
Do you need to send sensitive information or files via email? In that case, you should know that email wasn’t designed to be private and there are a lot of ways it can be used to identify you, such as: All of these are excellent ways to uncover spam emails, but we’re sure you’re not […]
How to Stay Anonymous Online? Is It Even Possible?
The Internet is an amazing thing when it comes to communication, learning new things, buying stuff, etc. But how about becoming anonymous? Then it’s a different story. Tech giants like Google, Amazon, Apple and others don’t want you to be anonymous. They want to know everything about and collect your data. Basically, that’s how you’re […]
What is an Email Alias and How to Create One for Your CTemplar Email Account?
What is an email alias and how does it work? An email alias is an additional email address that you can add to your primary email mailbox. Think of it as a nick name to your email account that will use the same account settings, contact list and inbox as the primary account. What are […]
What is Internet Surveillance? How to Protect Yourself From Government Surveillance?
Is Big Brother watching you or is it just your paranoia and you’re imagining things? Unfortunately, while you may think that you’re not interesting enough for someone to spy on you or monitor your online activities – you are and you’re being a victim of Internet surveillance every second you spend online. Everything from what […]
How to be a Whistleblower? Everything You Need to Know About Anonymous Whistleblowing
What would you do if you uncovered corruption, fraud or other illegal practices in your organization, or done by a government agency? Would you stay silent or would you become a whistleblower? If you said the second, this article is the perfect way for you to learn what it means to be a whistleblower and […]
How to Encrypt Internet Connection and Secure Your Traffic?
Encryption is the process of concealing a message so that it can only be read by the intended and trusted recipient. Or, if you want to get technical about it, encryption means using algorithms to conceal and scramble data into an unrecognizable, encoded version, which can only be read by someone with a decryption key. […]
How to Trace Email IP Address and Learn Who Sent You the Email?
Somebody sent you a strange email. Maybe they’re threatening to blackmail you if you don’t send them a specific amount in ransom, or they claim to know you, but you can’t remember knowing them. Their email address, however, reveals nothing. In any case, you want to know who sent you the email so you know […]
How Offline GPG Decryption Software Works?
Whether you have an online business or are looking to secure your own privacy, encryption software is at the forefront and a must-have for protecting your confidential information. In this article, we’ll discuss encryption/decryption software, the difference between PGP and GPG, as well as some offline GPG decryption software tools and why you might need […]
Is Email Secure Enough to Send Your Sensitive Documents?
Can you believe that email is 50 years old? And it’s still one of the most common ways that we communicate online. In fact, over 300 billion emails were sent and received in 2020 and the average office worker in the United States receives 121 emails per day, according to these statistics. But how secure is […]
How Does End-to-End Encryption Protect Your Email Data From Third Party Access?
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) provides the best level of privacy for your email communication. But what is end-to-end email encryption? End-to-end encryption is a way of sending data such that only the sender and the recipient can open and read an email message. This is done by encrypting the data on one side and decrypting it on the […]
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 […]
Email Privacy Law: 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 […]
Email Encryption and Human Rights
Earlier in February this year, a criminal group in Europe was arrested for several murders, torture, drug trafficking and other crimes. Among the evidence, the police gathered 44 mobile phones, all equipped with Sky ECC, a Canadian encrypted messaging app. The police did manage to access the app and searching the phones found several incriminating […]
Most Important Encryption and Data Privacy Laws Your Business Should Know About
Running a business online means handling lots of confidential information about your company, customers, stakeholders, etc. that must be protected from unauthorized access. Data security has long stopped being a mere buzzword and today businesses must make a constant effort to protect any sensitive data they have. With that in mind, it’s important to understand […]
What is Autocrypt and Why CTemplar Adopted it
Introducing Autocrypt and What it Means for CTemplar (and Non-CTemplar) Email Users Looking for Security and Privacy? 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, […]
Is Encryption a Threat to National Security?
The argument whether encryption is a human right or a threat to national security goes back to the early days of the Internet in the 1990s and is still going strong today. We are not as naive as to think that this article alone will once and for all put an end to that debate, […]
How to Improve Your Company Email Security Hygiene in 2021?
Today, criminals are far less likely to barge into your company doors and take stuff. Instead, they do it behind a laptop, attacking through email. As a business owner, it’s important to understand and know how to deal with email attacks, but you can’t be the only line of email security defense. Your employees must […]
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 […]