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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 […]
November 30, 2023
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 […]
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 […]
Email Dos and Don’ts Lawyers and Law Firms Need to Remember
Lawyers and law firms are not new to sending and receiving emails. However, just like any other profession, attorney services too can often get it wrong. Sending an email to the wrong address, or not ensuring that your messages have a professional tone can hurt your law firm, so here are some email dos and […]
Email Security: Your Practical Guide to Keeping Your Inbox Safe
We use our email pretty much every day to communicate with others and often to send and receive sensitive information through it, but do you ever consider if this is the safest way to do this for both the sender and the recipient? The truth of the matter is that email is not very secure, […]
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 […]
Why Choosing an Open Source Secure Email Service over Proprietary Email is a Good Idea
Today more and more organizations opt to go the open source route and email services are among them. 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 email clients that you can check […]
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 […]