Lavabit has resurrected itself from the ashes to once again provide secure email services in a post-Snowden world. Ladar Levison, CEO and owner of Lavabit, chose the US Inauguration Day to announce ...

Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private networks. He's an advocate for digital privacy and has been quoted in online publications like Computer Weekly, The Guardian, ...

There are plenty of reasons you might need to send a Gmail message on your computer or Android smartphone. Gmail has a feature called Confidential mode that allows you to send an email that can't be ...

Following on from the revelation that Lavabit, the secure email provider used by Edward Snowden, has closed we also got the news that Silent Circle was preemptively closing down their email service.

Especially in a small business, where your email is full of important and sensitive information about accounts, transactions and valuable clients, setting up a secure email address is critical to the ...

If you want to protect your email from prying eyes, but don’t need the kind of protection that keeps spies and whistleblowers alive, ProtonMail could be the secure email service for you. It utilizes ...

Two encrypted communication service providers are turning to you for help in building the next-generation of secure email services. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison and Silent Circle recently began a ...

It was a shock when David Petraeus—a respected and highly-decorated Army general—abruptly stepped down from his post as the director of the CIA earlier this week. It was even more of a jolt to learn ...

The digital carnage continues as yet another online service shuts down rather than face NSA scrutiny. Fearing for its email security, the legal site Groklaw shut its doors on Tuesday, but not before ...

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Email has been around for 50 years, and while it's fast and efficient, it's not always secure. Best-in-breed security is essential for protecting companies from phishing and other cyberattacks.