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Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July

Supernova will prove open source project is not dead – just pining for an enormo-revamp

Software14 Feb 2023 | 94

Take the morning off because Outlook has already

We're down to Microsoft 364 again by first week of February

Applications07 Feb 2023 | 66

US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying

Creepy developer offers evasive apps that track victims, crack their cloud storage, enable harassment and worse

Personal Tech07 Feb 2023 | 12

Mailchimp 'fesses up to second digital burglary in five months

Social engineering helped intruders break into customers' inboxes again

Cyber-crime19 Jan 2023 | 11

Double-check demand payment emails from law firms: Convincing fakes surface

Crimson Kingsnake impersonates legit attorneys, fakes email threads from your colleagues in far-reaching BEC campaign

Research04 Nov 2022 | 15

Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

Home Secretary 'nominally in charge' of nation's security apologizes for breach of tech protocols

Security01 Nov 2022 | 156

Ordinary web access request or command to malware?

Cranefly group unleashes nasty little technique using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs

Research31 Oct 2022 | 4

No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them

On Call Just because the client touches a computer doesn’t make a mess their fault

On-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 263

Toyota dev left key to customer info on public GitHub page for five years

'Oh what a feeling' when your contractor leaks site source code

Security11 Oct 2022 | 8

Upcoming Outlook for Windows app opens to more testers

Office Insider? You might want to check refreshed email client

Applications29 Sep 2022 | 6

Microsoft Outlook sends users back to 1930 with (very) mini-Millennium-Bug glitch

Planes unlikely to fall out of sky after December 31, 2029, El Reg can confirm

Offbeat15 Sep 2022 | 77

Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws

Bike and car accessory slinger fined £30,000 for hitting send on more than 499k unsolicited emails

Security08 Sep 2022 | 39

Deluge of of entries to Spamhaus blocklists includes 'various household names'

Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers

Security18 Aug 2022 | 115

Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after attack leaked customer email addresses

Somebody went after crypto-centric companies’ outsourced email but the damage was felt in the cloud

Cyber-crime16 Aug 2022 | 19

Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters

Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 58

Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers

Updated Have it your way – whether you want it or not

Software09 Aug 2022 | 59

Student crashes Cloudflare beta party, redirects email, bags a bug bounty

Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000

Research04 Aug 2022 | 8

Outlook email users alerted to suspicious activity from Microsoft-owned IP address

Updated Netizens turn amateur sleuths to discover Windows giant is the source of weird login attempts

Security21 Jul 2022 | 58

This big phish can swim around MFA, says Microsoft Security

Slippery AiTM attacks targeted more than 10,000 orgs over the past nine months

CSO13 Jul 2022 | 2

Keep an eye on your Experian accounts: Some profiles hijacked using personal info

When identity thieves strike your identity theft monitor

Personal Tech12 Jul 2022 | 8

Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support

Mozilla's messaging client appears to have benefited from sponsor shakeup

Applications30 Jun 2022 | 43

Google said to be taking steps to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam bin

Just after Big Tech comes under fire for left and right-leaning message filters

Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 34

LGBTQ+ folks warned of dating app extortion scams

Uncle Sam tells of crooks exploiting Pride Month

Cyber-crime27 Jun 2022 | 6

Voicemail phishing emails steal Microsoft credentials

As always, check that O365 login page is actually O365

CSO21 Jun 2022 | 20

Thunderbird is coming to Android – in K-9 Mail form

Rumble heard as two faithful friends merge into lycanthropic chimæra

Applications15 Jun 2022 | 64

Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement

Multiple accounts, local storage, calendars, and feeds make it worth the wait

Software09 Jun 2022 | 56

Farewell to two pivotal figures: The founder of Inmos, and the co-creator of MIME

Obituary Iann Barron and Ned Freed were key innovators in computer comms

Bootnotes07 Jun 2022 | 18

Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025

Four years later than planned – maybe that's how long it will take to make it secure?

Applications06 Jun 2022 | 33

Spam is back with a vengeance. Luckily we can't read any of it

Something for the Weekend It's a shame still nothing can be done about all the false positives, though

Bootnotes27 May 2022 | 102

About half of popular websites tested found vulnerable to account pre-hijacking

In detail: Ocean's Eleven-grade ruse in which victims' profiles are rigged from the start

Research25 May 2022 | 12

Google keeps legacy G Suite alive and free for personal use

Phew!

Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 42

Email out, Slack and Teams in for business communications

For the first time, more respondents indicate a preference for instant messaging, says SWZD

Networks10 May 2022 | 47

National Security Agency employee indicted for 'leaking top secret info'

Managed to send material from his private email address, it is claimed

Security01 Apr 2022 | 31

How CAPTCHAs can cloak phishing URLs in emails

Select all images of you being duped into providing your credentials

Security17 Mar 2022 | 45

Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy

No more than 10 alphanumerics, no special characters – in 2022?

Security10 Mar 2022 | 161

Yahoo shutters email service in China

Purple! Palace! has! nothing! left! behind! the! Great! Firewall! – not! even! users’! mail! troves!

Off-Prem01 Mar 2022 | 5

BlackBerry offloads its 'legacy' patents – some of the stuff that made its phones hum

$600M sale to new owner created and funded just to handle mobile, networking, and messaging IP

Software01 Feb 2022 | 17

Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return

Sorry, that IP address is on the naughty step

Off-Prem17 Jan 2022 | 81

Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server

Happy New Year. Welcome back! Now apply this patch – which Microsoft warns isn't easy – if you want email to work

Software03 Jan 2022 | 33

FBI spams thousands with fake infosec advice after 'software misconfiguration'

Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose Feds' failings as a public service. We want to believe

Security15 Nov 2021 | 9

BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day

Updated Call that an outage? Now this is an outage

Off-Prem12 Nov 2021 | 49

NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event

It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day

Security20 Oct 2021 | 60

Something phishy: Tech recruiters jabbed by fake COVID-19 Passport scam

Tells clients it is tackling the issue

Security17 Sep 2021 | 15

Open redirect on UK council website was being used for Royal Mail-themed parcel payments scam

Updated Homes4Wiltshire, aka Homes4Spammers

Security13 Sep 2021 | 2

IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

Behind the curtain: Server crashes, thumbs down on Slack, staff compared to shoemaker's kids, and more

Software08 Jul 2021 | 74

UK's data watchdog probes use of private email to discuss government business at the Department of Health

Information Commissioner cites loss of transparency as reason for inquiry

Security07 Jul 2021 | 25

Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself

Column Quit financial engineering and go back to your roots, IBM

Off-Prem05 Jul 2021 | 43

IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say

Thousands struggle with intermittent failure of multiple messaging services

On-Prem30 Jun 2021 | 136

Autoforwarding in Exchange Online falls over due to a problematic spam rule deployment

Updated If only there were an AI to do what Microsoft's engineers don't seem to be able to

SaaS26 May 2021 | 8

East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder

'Was a Mailchimp sub too hard?!' asks Reg reader

Security05 May 2021 | 26

Nigerian email scammer sent down for 40 months in the US, ordered to pay back $2.7m to victims

Among the victims: the United Nations

Security14 Apr 2021 | 18

BP Chargemaster's Pulse rebrand let crims send IcedID banking trojan from formerly legit mailboxes

F-Secure confirms nature of email nasty to El Reg

Security25 Mar 2021 | 12

ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments

Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files

Security11 Mar 2021 | 17

Subway email weirdness: Suspicion grows over apparent Trickbot trojan delivery campaign

Updated If you got an unexpected message from the not-footlong guys, don't click links

Security11 Dec 2020 | 19

Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

Messsage Center: Call this number. Number: Use the Message Center.

Security08 Dec 2020 | 200

Compsci guru wants 'right to be forgotten' for old email, urges Google and friends to expire, reveal crypto-keys

DKIM 'makes us all more vulnerable to extortion, blackmail,' argues Green

Security19 Nov 2020 | 88