Email

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

Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field

Hundreds of email addresses exposed, customers predictably less-than-thrilled

Security17 Nov 2020 | 16

TalkTalk marches OneTel users into a brave new email world

You will be upgraded, whether you want to be or not

SaaS05 Oct 2020 | 17

Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses

And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance

Security01 Oct 2020 | 11

You have to be very on-trend as a cybercrook – hence why coronavirus-themed phishing is this year's must-have look

F-Secure gives its take on the first half of 2020 in internet scumminess

Security17 Sep 2020 | 6

University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online

Institute says the knowledge needed to run it is fading, but the move wasn't without opposition

SaaS04 Aug 2020 | 152

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs

Security04 Aug 2020 | 80

About ready to POP3: Day 6 of email wobbles at UK2 after services provider Tucows suffers 'service failure'

Updated 15% of customers affected as Canadian partner promises 'full mailbox services' today

Networks22 Jul 2020 | 9

Email seems lost in the post? You might be a Tsohost customer

Print it out, pop a stamp on it, stick it in a pillar box. Might have been quicker

SaaS09 Jul 2020 | 18

TsoHost swings axe at 'legacy' DIY website builder MrSite, giving customers a month to find alternative arrangements

Celebrating two years of merged activities by hitting the Off button

Legal05 Jun 2020 | 8

Go on, hit Reply All. We dare you. We double dare you. Because Office 365 will defeat your server-slamming ways

New Exchange Reply-All-stopper is rolling out in the cloud now

SaaS08 May 2020 | 49

Think before filling in that convenient flight refund form with all your delicious details – there's a scam going about

Email ruse preying on COVID-19 fears sends data to crims, warns Mimecast

Security15 Apr 2020 | 4

Something something DANE cook: Microsoft pledges to wrap its email systems in secure anti-snooping protocol

Office 365 will finally get DNSSEC-based protection later this year

SaaS07 Apr 2020 | 14

New year, old threats: Malware peddlers went into overdrive in Q1, says Trend Micro

Jan and Feb contained bumper load of fake invoice emails

Security07 Apr 2020 | 2

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor

Bootnotes26 Mar 2020 | 82

Nigerian spammer made 3X average national salary firehosing macro-laden Word docs at world+dog

And his boss monitored him with a RAT

Security17 Mar 2020 | 13

Health workers are top of phishers' target lists thanks to data value

Interview And HR folks aren't far behind, says Proofpoint strategist

Security16 Mar 2020 | 15

Tutanota cries 'censorship!' after secure email biz blocked – for real this time – in Russia

Move over, there's plenty of room on Putin's naughty step

Security17 Feb 2020 | 19

Thunderbird is go: Mozilla's email client lands in a new nest

Around 0.5% of emails opened in the 'bird today, according to one analytics tracker survey

Software30 Jan 2020 | 114

150 infosec bods now know who they're up against thanks to BT Security cc/bcc snafu

Mass-mail fail followed outfit's appearance at jobs fair

Security12 Nov 2019 | 47

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

Nor is he called Andrew, but he's still getting messages about Dart Charge

Personal Tech12 Nov 2019 | 199

A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

You wouldn't want to make workers anxious by cutting them off, wouldya? – study

Personal Tech16 Oct 2019 | 65

Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts

Which cost Lake District land seller £25,000

Legal30 Sep 2019 | 155

TalkTalk still struggles to shut down legacy email addresses on request

Another ex-customer struggles to get hacked account killed off

Security26 Sep 2019 | 27

Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!)

Updated FFS!

SaaS05 Sep 2019 | 73

TSO Host no closer to solving customers' email issues as Brit firm pops up on more blacklists

Updated Punters bemoan comms silence with no fix in sight

SaaS20 Aug 2019 | 24

Canadian ISP Telus launches novel solution to deal with excess email: Crash your servers and wipe it all

Dell-EMC storage blunder leaves Canucks fuming for four days

Storage19 Aug 2019 | 37

Microsoft blocked TSO Host's email IPs from Hotmail, Outlook inboxes and no one seems to care

Apart from the poor sods paying for the service, that is

Channel09 Aug 2019 | 50

Can't get infected via email if your messages aren't delivered: Seven-hour slowdown hits Symantec cloud filters

Wondering why your inbox was so clear? Bad news…

Security10 Jun 2019 | 15

It's not chicken feed: Million-dollar meal deal for livestock sabotaged by hackers... and, er, exchange rates

Six-week investigation delay shrank payment by 13%

Security17 May 2019 | 16