Re: Email
Posted: April 28th, 2020, 11:45 am
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Browser maker Mozilla is working on a new service called Private Relay that generates unique aliases to hide a user's email address from advertisers and spam operators when filling in online forms.
The service entered testing last month and is currently in a closed beta, with a public beta currently scheduled for later this year, ZDNet has learned.
Private Relay will be available as a Firefox add-on that lets users generate a unique email address -- an email alias -- with one click
Cont.Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers.
Cont.When Troy Hunt launched Have I Been Pwned in late 2013, he wanted it to answer a simple question: Have you fallen victim to a data breach?
Seven years later, the data-breach notification service processes thousands of requests each day from users who check to see if their data was compromised — or pwned with a hard ‘p’ — by the hundreds of data breaches in its database, including some of the largest breaches in history. As it’s grown, now sitting just below the 10 billion breached-records mark, the answer to Hunt’s original question is more clear.
Cont.As part of a series of security updates to G Suite announced this week, Google says it’s piloting a new standard for email authentication that will display a company or brand icon next to email that Google has verified as legit – a measure that may help curb phishing and other malicious activity from bad actors.
With the Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard...
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Infrasonic wrote:So on a hunch I've deleted all address blocks and stopped reporting any spam as phishing.
All I do now is empty the 'Junk Email' folder, nothing else.
Cont.Microsoft Exchange clients like Outlook have been supplying unprotected user credentials if you ask in a particular way since at least 2016. Though aware of this, Microsoft's advice continues to be that customers should communicate only with servers they trust.
On August 10, 2016, Marco van Beek, managing director at UK-based IT consultancy Supporting Role, emailed the Microsoft Security Response Center to disclose an Autodiscover exploit that worked with multiple email clients, including Microsoft Outlook...
Cont.Five years on
Last week, security firm Guardicore offered its take on the problem with the Autodiscover protocol, explaining that the "back off" mechanism for resolving domain names makes it trivial to set up servers on Autodiscover TLDs to intercept hundreds of thousands of credential transmissions from systems that haven't been properly secured...
Infrasonic wrote:Worryingly it seems the default setting on Google Groups allows for you to be added as a member without your express permission and I received no alert email. I've subsequently changed this on all Google accounts/addresses so now I can't be signed up without an invitation email being sent and me physically approving. I set up a test group with my own Gmail addresses to see if I could duplicate the spammers MO but couldn't - so I presume they are taking advantage of some bug in the API that lets addresses be added without an alert email being sent out.
If you have Google accounts/addresses I strongly suggest you log into Google Groups and change the default setting to stop yourself being auto added to groups.
chas49 wrote:Thanks for this. I eventually managed to find where Google Groups is (I couldn't see it ony page of different Google products, so I googled it)! It's at https://groups.google.com/my-groups.
The setting (gear icon, global settings) was - as you say - set to allow me to be added to any group. Fortunately I haven't been - and now (I hope) I can't be without me accepting an invitation.
Cont.A Swiss court has upheld the appeal of Geneva-based Proton, a provider of secure and anonymous email services, limiting its obligation to monitor traffic and retain data for surveillance purposes...
Infrasonic wrote:Just as an FYI Protonmail currently have a 30 day offer to double the capacity of your free inbox from 500MB to 1GB.
You have to send an email, import some data from another account (emails/contacts/calendar), install and log in with the mobile app and set up a recovery method (email and/or phone number).
I don't know for sure but I doubt if you deleted any imported data after getting the upgrade they'll rescind the extra inbox capacity...
I've got a couple of free accounts with them and have just upgraded - 500MB is a bit tight especially if you receive a lot of attachments.
They also do a free limited features VPN and Calendar and have a Beta cloud storage offering for paid. All services are encrypted and if you correspond with another Protonmail user it is automatically E2EE both ways without having to mess with PGP keys (which you can also configure for external E2EE correspondence).
GrahamPlatt wrote:Infrasonic wrote:Just as an FYI Protonmail currently have a 30 day offer to double the capacity of your free inbox from 500MB to 1GB.
You have to send an email, import some data from another account (emails/contacts/calendar), install and log in with the mobile app and set up a recovery method (email and/or phone number).
I don't know for sure but I doubt if you deleted any imported data after getting the upgrade they'll rescind the extra inbox capacity...
I've got a couple of free accounts with them and have just upgraded - 500MB is a bit tight especially if you receive a lot of attachments.
They also do a free limited features VPN and Calendar and have a Beta cloud storage offering for paid. All services are encrypted and if you correspond with another Protonmail user it is automatically E2EE both ways without having to mess with PGP keys (which you can also configure for external E2EE correspondence).
Interesting, as I have been a user for about a year now - just a free account but thinking I will eventually upgrade to paid for. But I have had no notification of this offer, and can’t find it with an online search.
Dear Proton community member,
Congratulations on completing a major step of your journey to digital privacy! You've successfully:
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Sent your first message
Set up a recovery method
Used our mobile app
To help you store even more emails and attachments, we've upgraded your account storage to 1 GB.
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Infrasonic wrote:My oldest Protonmail account got upgraded last night, don't know why there was such a delay but at least they are honouring the inbox offer with all the free accounts, not selectively just for new ones as I feared upthread.
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