Let's talk about S/MIME and PGP for email. I have had a peripheral interest in data security for a while now and lately I've been putting some effort into secure email. I found a working S/MIME ...

Microsoft has implemented the S/MIME e-mail security standard across its hosted and server-based Exchange products, the company announced this month. The Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ...

Two decades ago, Nathaniel Borenstein and Ned Freed wrote MIME, the Internet protocol for sending multimedia e-mail messages. Here’s how they did it. Every time you send an e-mail, consider cutting a ...

ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Businesses worldwide have reported $12 billion in fraud losses since 2013 as a result of 78,000 BEC attacks (FBI). To address this cybersecurity risk and increase ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable to being hacked and they urge users to disable and uninstall them ...

Good S/MIME is compliant with the mandated standards for public key encryption and signing of e-mail, and with approval from The Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) has developed a software ...

The research for this post is now public. See this post for details. A less drastic safeguard is to ensure HTML is disabled in the email client, although the researchers have warned that future ...