Hacker News with Generative AI: Email Security

We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer (utoronto.ca)
Yesterday evening, we were hit by a run of phish spam that I would call 'vaguely customized' for us, for example the display name in the From: header was "U of T | CS Dept" (but then the actual email address was that of the compromised account elsewhere that was used to send the phish spam). The destination addresses here weren't particularly well chosen, and some of them didn't even exist. So far, so normal.

Cybersecurity, Phishing, Email Security

191 points by epakai 23 days ago | 127 comments

Tell HN: I'm getting spam on an email address only ever used to sign up to HN (ycombinator.com)
I'm getting spam on an email address only ever used to sign up to HN

Spam, Hacker News, Email Security

54 points by mvdtnz 29 days ago | 37 comments

Has anyone used Proton Business Suite rather than Google's for a startup? (ycombinator.com)
I'm considering doing so. It's much better priced, I would like to keep adwords separate as all the horror stories I've seen posted here, and the end-to-end encrypted communications could be valuable to my startup. Has anyone used Proton's business suite in a startup environment?

Startup Advice, Email Security, Privacy, Google Workspace

79 points by joshSzep 88 days ago | 64 comments

FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas (krebsonsecurity.com)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based technology companies.

Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement, Email Security, Government

13 points by todsacerdoti 104 days ago | 0 comments

SMTP Downgrade Attacks and MTA-STS (alexsci.com)
In this post, I audit several prominent mail providers to discover how they handle email encryption and show how MTA-STS can help improve email security.

Email Security, SMTP, MTA-STS

25 points by 8organicbits 143 days ago | 16 comments

Emails encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG (dataswamp.org)

Email Security, OpenBSD, Encryption, Dovecot, GPG

4 points by upofadown 186 days ago | 0 comments

So the Department of Energy emailed me (haxx.se)

Government, Cybersecurity, Email Security

51 points by Kirce 191 days ago | 7 comments

Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority" (panic.com)

Apple, Email Security, Phishing, Security Flaws

213 points by latexr 200 days ago | 162 comments

Phishing Campaign Exploits Proofpoint to Send Spoofed Emails (guard.io)