ZDNet

Outlook bug meant S/MIME emails were sent unencrypted for months

A bug in Microsoft Outlook meant that sensitive emails supposed to be scrambled with S/MIME encryption before they were sent may have also been mistakenly sent in unencrypted plaintext. The bug let ...
Slate

The Most Shocking Thing About Encrypted Email Being Vulnerable Is That Anyone Still Uses Encrypted Email

This week’s headlines about newfound vulnerabilities in the PGP and S/MIME email-encryption programs really shocked me—not because the vulnerabilities (dubbed EFAIL … get it?) seemed so dangerous but ...
Computer Weekly

Gmail ‘bubble’ encryption may be an S/MIME killer, says Google

Google is this week unveiling an enhanced client-side encryption (CSE) standard across its widely-used Gmail service – which marks its 21 st birthday on 1 April – that it hopes may render the ...
HotHardware

Researchers Warn Of Critical PGP And S/MIME Email Encryption Vulnerabilities

Security researchers are warning anyone who uses PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or S/MIME for email encryption to disable the scheme in their email clients right away, and ...
Bleeping Computer

Outlook Might Not Have Encrypted Your Emails If You Used S/MIME Encryption

Users who utilized Microsoft Outlook to send out secure emails encrypted via the S/MIME standard might have had the content of those emails leaked by an Outlook bug. The issue is that Outlook sends an ...
The Next Web

PSA: PGP and S/MIME email clients may leak encrypted emails

If you’ve been using PGP or S/MIME to securely send and receive sensitive emails, you’ll want to stop using them right away, as a group of European researchers have found vulnerabilities in both ...
Business Wire

Sectigo Unveils Cybersecurity Industry’s First Zero-Touch S/MIME Solution

ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Businesses worldwide have reported $12 billion in fraud losses since 2013 as a result of 78,000 BEC attacks (FBI). To address this cybersecurity risk and increase ...
Ars Technica

Securing Email with S/MIME and PGP

Let's talk about S/MIME and PGP for email. I have had a peripheral interest in data security for a while now and lately I've been putting some effort into secure email. I found a working S/MIME ...
Science Daily

Email encryption standards hacked

A research team has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks. Their attack, referred to as Efail, proved successful in 25 out of 35 tested email ...
Engadget

‘Efail’ exploit exposes popular email encryption schemes

Encrypted emails guarded by common encryption tools are allegedly "susceptible to critical vulnerabilities" that would expose their content to potential hackers. Sebastian Schnizel, a computer science ...
Ars Technica

Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted emails—uninstall now [Updated]

The research for this post is now public. See this post for details. A less drastic safeguard is to ensure HTML is disabled in the email client, although the researchers have warned that future ...