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Trillions of dollars are spent on online shopping each year while online scams and identity theft are on the rise. Here are ten tips to help you stay safe when shopping online.

This Halloween, we’ve collected some of the most horrifying real-life email hacking stories for you. And provide 5 tips to protect you from becoming the main character in the next hacking horror tale.

Email is still one of the most widely used forms of communication but it's not as safe as we think it is. Here are 4 reasons why you should protect your emails.

You may think you’ll never be hacked, but every 39 seconds, there is a new attack somewhere on the internet.  According to recent statistics, email is responsible for over 90% of all cyber threats. While this may sound alarming, changing just a few daily habits can significantly reduce the risks of your accounts being hacked.

Email was one of the first modes of online communication, and arguably, the most successful. Even with the introduction of other messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Signal, the number of global email users has continued to steadily increase. In 2020, there were four billion users, and this is expected to grow to 4.6 billion by 2025. 

It seems as though new cyberattacks are reported every week. Since the pandemic began and companies were forced to move online, network security has been a paramount concern of both businesses and governments. It makes perfect sense, then, that hiring cybersecurity professionals has been a global focus and demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to rise.

PGP encryption is a critical security feature of StartMail’s email service – it scrambles the contents of your messages so that it can’t be read by anyone other than the sender and the intended recipient. And they really mean no one can read it, not even them! Though technologically complicated, they made it extremely user-friendly for StartMail users, ensuring that there are no obstacles to your email privacy.

With the rise of coronavirus cases, many companies have been forced to change their working scheme and adapt to a completely remote environment. For some, not much changed, but for others, the work-from-home situation was uncharted territory that introduced potential security traps. […]

Did you know that since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen? One of the main reasons? Email.  Most cryptocurrency owners opt for using a provider, such as an exchange wallet, to secure their crypto rather than holding the crypto themselves, since that can be quite complex. […]

By Patrick W. Dunne – freelance writer for Digital Privacy News – follow him on LinkedIn or read his blog. Email can be one of the least secure platforms out there. Every day, people freely exchange private information without regard for who might see it, or whose hands it could end up in. You’re probably familiar with a […]