Remember that massive Yahoo hack? Not the one in 2013 that resulted in the theft of around a billion users’ data, but the breach in 2014 that led to the compromising of some 500 million user accounts? Yeah, that one.
Well, one of the people rel…
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ProtonMail bolts on an encrypted contacts manager and digital signing for contacts
Another neat addition to end-to-end encrypted email client ProtonMail: It’s added a zero-access encrypted contacts manager that also digitally signs the contact info you store in it. Read More
View More ProtonMail bolts on an encrypted contacts manager and digital signing for contactsEmail marketer SendGrid up 13% following IPO
Marketing email company SendGrid had a decent first day on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. After pricing shares at $16, the company closed at $18.03, or up almost 13%. The Denver-based company had raised $131 million after pricing its IPO at $16, above the expected range of $13.50 to $15.50. SendGrid also upsized its IPO, selling 8.2 million shares, instead of 7.7 million.… Read More
View More Email marketer SendGrid up 13% following IPOKinder, gentler debt collector TrueAccord raises $22 million
Bringing debt collection into the age of the soft touch, email and text-based world of the 21st century has netted TrueAccord $22 million in a new round of funding.
I first wrote about the company three years ago (time flies) and since then the company has added a 70 new customers and is managing the debt of roughly 1.8 million individuals and businesses (to the tune of approximately $1.6… Read More
Email bot wastes a scammer’s time with mindless chit-chat
While you might be wise enough to delete or flag emails promising great wealth in far-flung countries, not everyone is so savvy to these scams.
To ensure these scammers have less time to prey on real people, New Zealand online safety organisation Netsafe has developed a tool called Re:scam.
It’s an artificially intelligent email bot which engages with scammers in mindless, never-ending conversation, full of unrelated questions that waste their time — it’s a similar strategy adopted by Mashable‘s scam crusader Scamalot. Read more…
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View More Email bot wastes a scammer’s time with mindless chit-chatMicrosoft rolls out LinkedIn integrations in Outlook.com
Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of business networking site LinkedIn is starting to pay off – at least in terms of product integrations that make sense. The company today announced that LinkedIn integration within Outlook.com is now going live, allowing email users to view insights, profile pictures, work history and more from within their inbox. The addition of LinkedIn… Read More
View More Microsoft rolls out LinkedIn integrations in Outlook.comPaul Manafort’s favorite password is even dumber than you’d think
Trumpland spun into a frenzy early October 30 as former campaign chief Paul Manafort was charged with money laundering and tax fraud. The indictment contained several juicy tidbits about Manafort’s alleged transgressions, but perhaps the most ridicul…
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