We've all got an email address, but not all of us know how to protect it from cyber threats. Think of your email address as the key to a treasure chest filled with virtual riches, aka all your private ...

Hackers hijack mail accounts to send spam unnoticed under someone else's name. But the intruders leave traces, and there are also ways to get rid of them again. The first sign that something’s wrong ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Now Google has issued a new warning for users who lose their ...

Discovering that your email account has been hacked can be an extremely distressing experience, as it opens the door to serious consequences such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, ...

Microsoft is about to introduce new security requirements that will mean users of Outlook.com will no longer be able to access their Gmail inboxes. Starting June 30, if you want to use Outlook to ...

Account compromise or monitoring can be a quiet affair, and there may be no glaring or immediate signs that your accounts are no longer completely under your control. If someone has access to your ...

If a hacker or scammer has access to your email, every account connected to it is at risk. We show you how to protect yourself fast. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password ...

Email is not just a means of communication, or yet another online account. In both our personal and work lives, it holds the keys to the kingdom: possibly even a mechanism to reset other account ...

A forgotten email account isn’t a harmless relic from past online times, but a potential gateway to your digital identity. As long as it exists, it remains accessible—not just to you, but also to ...