An undisclosed issue caused some users of Google’s Gmail service to experience email delivery delays for up to almost 9 hours September 23. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/092313-gmail-hit-bymessage-delivery-274100.html … [Read more...] about Gmail hit by message delivery delays
Colleges and universities are putting the financial and personal information of students and parents at risk by allowing them to submit such data to the school in unencrypted email. That was a finding in a survey released Monday by Halock Security Labs after surveying 162 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Half the institutions allowed sensitive … [Read more...] about Universities putting sensitive data at risk via unsecure email
University of Illinois (UI) officials worked to fix an attack on the campus email system after companies began blacklisting all emails from university accounts due to a significant phishing scam. The staff has taken steps to mitigate the attack and advised those with UI email addresses not to change their passwords unless they are contacted by Campus Information Technologies … [Read more...] about University of Illinois email system attacked
Heise Security, 7 Mar 2013: Email account hijacking has been a big problem for Yahoo Mail users since the beginning of the year, as a number of vulnerabilities have been discovered, shared online and exploited by cyber scammers. Yahoo has repeatedly claimed that the flaws were fixed, but the attacks go on and the number of hijacked accounts continues to be considerable. The … [Read more...] about Yahoo Mail accounts still hijacked daily