ZDNet

Secure a virtual SMTP server

Windows includes tools for managing and monitoring TCP/IP. Whether you're troubleshooting a computer or simply looking for more information to configure it, there are five commands that can come in ...
Engadget

Big tech companies want to make email more secure

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 ...
eWeek

SMTP Strict Transport Security Standard Drafted for Email Security

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Love it or hate it, email remains a must-have tool in the ...
CSOonline

SMTP smuggling enables email spoofing while passing security checks

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Office 365 adds protection against downgrade and MITM attacks

Microsoft is working on adding SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) support to Exchange Online to ensure Office 365 customers' email communication security and integrity. Once MTA-STS is ...
eTeknix

New SMTP STS Email Security Standard Published by Industry Leaders

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 ...
HotHardware

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, And Others Propose More Secure Email Standard SMTP Strict Transport

With agencies like the NSA and FBI wanting to peer into our personal communications at will, we have to be proactive about keeping ourselves safe. But what if there's a fault we can't work around and ...
ZDNet

Microsoft to add DANE and DNSSEC support to Exchange Online servers

Microsoft announced this week plans to add official support for the DANE and DNSSEC protocols to its cloud-hosted email server offering -- known as Office 365 Exchange Online. DANE and DNSSEC are two ...
Bleeping Computer

Google SMTP relay service abused for sending phishing emails

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, ...
Ars Technica

secure smtp

Hi,<BR><BR>I've got my SSH tunneling setup with the POP server, so that over the wireless connection my POP password would be safe.<BR><BR>But what about SMTP? I'm not exactly sure how SMTP works. I ...
Ars Technica

Exchange 2010 R2 - Force smtp security (TLS)

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 ...