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When is “Secure Email” only a Veneer of Security?

Erik Kangas — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:28:25 +0000

I recently applied for a new insurance policy with fairly well known insurance agency (who shall remain nameless). When all the preliminaries were done, the representative emailed me copies of the new policies. They were “secure” emails. I was very>> read the complete answer

Automate Secure Outbound Email Sending with SecureLine

Erik Kangas — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:01:31 +0000

Frequently we are approached by customers who have automated systems that need to send out secured emails on demand and without any manual interaction. These could be web site response systems for sensitive information, health care labs emailing results which>> read the complete answer

Is SSL/TLS Really Broken by the BEAST attack? What is the Real Story? What Should I Do?

Erik Kangas — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:01:46 +0000

Update – April, 2012. openssl v1.0.1 is out and it supports TLS v1.1 and v1.2 which help mitigate this attack. All web sites hosted by LuxSci now use this updated software and are safer. LuxSci recommends using a web>> read the complete answer

Alternate SMTP Ports – Send Email From Any Location

Erik Kangas — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:12:34 +0000

When sending outbound email from an email program (like Outlook or Thunderbird) or from a mobile device (like iPhone or Blackberry) that is not using Premium MobileSync, your program or device connects to our outbound email servers>> read the complete answer

HIPAA Faxing: How To Send and Receive FAXes in a Secure and Compliant Way

Erik Kangas — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:21:14 +0000

We have previously discussed how it may be OK according to HIPAA to send and receive FAXes with ePHI over standard analog phone lines. See: Is a FAX document HIPAA-Secure?

However, we have observed that customers more and>> read the complete answer

Additional Domain-Level Security Settings Now Available

Erik Kangas — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:04:37 +0000

LuxSci has updated its per-domain administrative controls, adding features that were previously only present in the global, account-wide configuration area.

Now, the following security and privacy features can be configured on a per-domain basis, unless they are already set up>> read the complete answer

SecureLine Users Can Toggle Between TLS and Escrow Encryption When Sending Messages

Erik Kangas — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:47:43 +0000

LuxSci’s SecureLine end-to-end email security system enables allows customers to enable use of TLS for email delivery, without any further encryption, when TLS is supported by the recipient email servers and the customers’ needs only>> read the complete answer

SecureForm: now with SMTP TLS for Secure Form Email Delivery

Erik Kangas — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:16:21 +0000

SecureForm is LuxSci’s service that makes it quick and easy to collect data, including files, from web and PDF form posts and have that data emailed to one or more recipients and/or archived in a LuxSci WebAides document storage area. >> read the complete answer

SMTP TLS: All About Secure Email Delivery over TLS

Erik Kangas — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:13:19 +0000

TLS stands for “Transport Layer Security” and is closely related to “SSL” (Secure Socket Layer). TLS is one of the standard ways that computers transmit information over an encrypted channel. In general, when one computer connects to another>> read the complete answer

SecureLine Offers TLS-Only Enforced Outbound Email Encryption

Erik Kangas — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:14:51 +0000

LuxSci’s SecureLine end-to-end email filtering solution has been augmented with a new, optional, outbound email encryption option: “TLS Only”.

SecureLine accounts that enable “TLS Only” can have their outbound email delivered over an SMTP TLS encrypted channel>> read the complete answer