It happens at least every few years: system administrators need to update the security configuration of their servers to keep up with the latest best practices and to close newly found security issues(i.e., via changes to recommended TLS ciphers and protocols). These updates can be rocky. Change often introduces incompatibilities that prevent certain systems or […]
If you are allowing Mozilla FireFox or Thunderbird to remember passwords to web sites and/or email accounts in their Password Manager tool, you should know that these passwords are all stored in a plain text file (base64 encoded) on your computer’s disk drive. This file is accessible to anyone with administrative access to your computer. […]
Phishing scams are a major threat to all email users, especially businesses. The scary part is that they are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Phishing emails popped up sometime in the early 90s. However, back then, they weren’t too hard to detect. For instance, typos were commonplace in old-school phishing mail, which was a dead giveaway. Of […]
Many healthcare organizations prefer using email for business communication as it leaves a paper trail and can be a more secure solution than mobile messaging. When high volume transactional emails need to be sent every month, healthcare organizations face the challenge of ensuring that any financial and personally identifiable data sent by email is secured to […]
Many years ago, it used to be that if you had a cell phone that had an email program included, you could configure using IMAP and SMTP to allow you to check email and send email…. just like how a desktop email program worked. This is still the case, of course. However, as far back […]
