Email

Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Search

Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable

Applications26 Apr 2024 | 62

Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email

Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative

Applications16 Apr 2024 | 13

Outlook.com trips over Google's spam blocking rules

Microsoft has a workaround but it's not a great look

Personal Tech03 Apr 2024 | 27

Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you're mostly grown up – now fix the spam

Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs

Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 52

Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo

Microsoft IP addresses on the spam naughty step

Applications14 Mar 2024 | 47

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Microsoft prepares to replace an old faithful with something shiny, new, and lacking key features. Sound familiar?

Applications13 Mar 2024 | 227

Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce

Legal12 Feb 2024 | 81

HPE joins the 'our executive email was hacked by Russia' club

Moscow-backed Cozy Bear may have had access to the green rectangular email cloud for six months

Cyber-crime25 Jan 2024 | 7

Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder

UK GDPR penalty slashed from £1M after department agrees to improve processes

Public Sector13 Dec 2023 | 16

Pro-Russia group exploits Roundcube zero-day in attacks on European government emails

With this zero-day, researchers say the 'scrappy' group is stepping up its operations

Cyber-crime25 Oct 2023 | 4

Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole

Meanwhile, Exchange Online is on the fritz

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 13

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

The blind think this is not a visionary decision

Software25 Sep 2023 | 60

Lawyer's Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle

Accused software giant of MFA error that rendered work address useless

Software12 Sep 2023 | 31

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58

Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro

Feature Distinguish tech pros from tech poseurs with this one weird trick

Networks23 Aug 2023 | 187

Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe

Infosec in brief ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec's wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings

Security21 Aug 2023 | 11

Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error

Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot

Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 155

Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May

Alleges he's still locked out and at risk of losing his licenses over missing comms

Applications26 Jun 2023 | 64

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

Updated Users report they're still struggling to communicate ... and ask vendor to be more open

Networks21 Jun 2023 | 48

Users of 123 Reg caught out by catch-all redirect cut-off

Web hosting company tells users to pay up or shift off, but users say they weren't warned in time

Networks19 Jun 2023 | 60

Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments

Which means you may suddenly hit a 5GB limit rather than 15GB

Storage06 Apr 2023 | 76

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

In Brief ALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits

Security03 Apr 2023 | 90

Microsoft uses carrot and stick with Exchange Online admins

If you need extra time to dump RPS, OK, but email from unsupported Exchange servers is blocked till they’re up to date

Spotlight on RSA30 Mar 2023 | 16

Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious

Updated Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating'

Security29 Mar 2023 | 25

If you're struggling to secure email forwarding, it's not you, it's ... the protocols

Analysis Eggheads prove they can mimic messages and bag bug bounty bucks

Security19 Feb 2023 | 32

US defense forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All

As 13,000 officers managed their inboxes, a certain Chinese balloon floated across Montana …

Software14 Feb 2023 | 54

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