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Security researchers have found inconsistencies in how some Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers handle end-of-data sequences. This allows the injection of SMTP commands into email messages in ...

A number of engineers from some of today’s top tech firms have come together to provide a new standard of security for the sending and receiving of emails. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast, LinkedIn ...

A novel way to abuse a decades-old protocol used to send emails since the beginning of the Internet allows attackers to evade Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) and ...

Phishing actors abuse Google's SMTP relay service to bypass email security products and successfully deliver malicious emails to targeted users. According to a report from email security firm Avanan, ...

Google announced today that Gmail has become the first major email provider to support two new security standards, namely MTA-STS and TLS Reporting. Both are extensions to the Simple Mail Transfer ...

Microsoft has added SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) support to Exchange Online to ensure Office 365 customers' email communication integrity and security. "We have been validating our ...

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast and LinkedIn have joined forces to create a new email mechanism that makes sure the messages you send are encrypted. In the proposal they've submitted to the Internet ...

A poorly configured file opens users up to site takeover. Easy WP SMTP, a WordPress plugin for email management that has more than 500,000 installations, has a vulnerability that could open the site ...

I have a exchange setup and everything is working fine. When I setup IMAP (since all clients do not support RPC over HTTP), I specify IMAP and for security I have to choose SSL or TSL, but for SMTP I ...