A security researcher stumbled upon a vulnerability while poking around Google services using which any user can find out the personal email address of the victim even if they have not shared…
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Facebook retires @facebook.com email address system quietly
Facebook has put a full stop to its own email system after being unsuccessful to attract users. This means that the email address system that gave all users a @facebook.com mailing account…
Email Miles calculates the physical miles an email travelled before reaching destination
Email Miles is new system that aims to showcase how many physical miles has an email travelled before it reaches its destination. The system makes use of internet tracking, global positioning system…
Yahoo Mail breach confirmed; data of unspecified number of users stolen
Yahoo has confirmed breach of its Yahoo Mail service wherein attackers made away with data related to unspecified number of users. “Recently, we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to…
Twitter now lets marketers target audience using email addresses, user IDs
Twitter, on Wednesday, announced the introduction of new capabilities including email addresses and user ID based targeting under its recently launched Tailored Audiences programme for ad retargeting. Kelton Lynn, Revenue Product Manager,…
GoDaddy to offer Microsoft Office 365 hosted email service to businesses
Microsoft has managed to find a strategy partner in GoDaddy for its Office 365 hosted email services for small businesses. Microsoft, GoDaddy have been partners for years on email services based on…
Google adds new ‘Email via Google+’ feature to Gmail
Google has introduced a new feature which it claims will make it easier for people to reach each other without actually knowing their email address and will allow them to communicate over…
Yahoo Mail defaults to HTTPS
Yahoo is now automatically encrypting connections to its Yahoo Mail service as promised in November last year. All connections to Yahoo Mail servers from clients across the globe will now be encrypted…
European Parliament culls public Wi-Fi access after email hack
A white hat hacker managed to break into multiple email accounts thereby forcing the European Parliament to cutoff its public Wi-Fi access. The French security researcher apparently performed man-in-the-middle attacks on multiple…
Marissa Mayer: Yahoo to extend encryption to all its products by 2014
Yahoo on Monday resolved to extend encryption to all its services and products by early 2014 amidst reports that government agencies specifically the NSA was intercepting server traffic between Google and Yahoo…
Microsoft may recycle your Outlook, Live accounts if inactive for 360 days
Microsoft Outlook.com service agreements have a clause wherein users are required to sign-in “a minimum of every 270 days” otherwise their data may be deleted and account cancelled. However, there is more…
Judge refuses to dismiss Google email scanning lawsuit
This is for the second time in a row that a federal judge has refused to outlaw a lawsuit against Google accusing the tech giant of improperly scanning customers’ email content to…