Tag: email
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Australian MPs, police, and judges targeted in email hack
The private email accounts of thousands of Australian government officials, Australian Federal Police, judges and members of Parliament have been exposed in a massive data breach at Yahoo. The hack, which is thought to be the biggest in the world, impacted one billion accounts. The ABC reports that the private data of 3, 400 high profile…
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Emails – only in the workplace?
The French Socialist Party, run by President Francois Hollande, has proposed a governmentally implemented ban on work emails outside of normal work hours. A vote will occur on the measure that according to Hollande, will preserve employee’s rights to disconnect. The bill would see all companies with 50+ people write up a ‘good conduct’ charter, with…
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Upward of 200 million emails hacked
On Wednesday this week, a Wisconsin security firm called Hold Security reported they had obtained a cache of information from Russian hackers regarding emails and passwords. The firm originally uncovered the hacker bragging in online forums about the large amount of data he was going to sell, claiming to have over 1 billion email addresses…
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Federal Government’s $230m cyber security strategy
The Federal Government is expected to pour $230 million into its new national cyber security strategy which Malcolm Turnbull will announce today. According to News, the initiative will create a capacity to launch preemptive attacks on “cyber raiders”. A brand new four year program will be developed to boost Australia’s defence against online attacks. The improved security will include…
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The inventor of email and the @ symbol dies
Imagine a world where email didn’t exist and the @ symbol simply just looked like the letter a with a circle around it. On Saturday we celebrated the life of Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of the contemporary email system who died of an apparent heart attack at age 74. The year was 1971 when Tomlinson…
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Everything you need to know about Gmailify
The Gmail android app has always allowed everyone to manage other mail (Outlook, Yahoo) accounts but could they could never take full advantage of Gmail features. In Google’s attempt to conquer the world (get more customers) they have now happily informed that with the introduction of Gmailify they are now able to access Google’s well-known spam protection, inbox organisation, Google…
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Slacking Off on Slack
Emails are so 2006 these days with offices around the world flocking to group instant-messaging platforms like Slack to communicate with co-workers. It allows users to send messages individually or in group chats. Surprisingly, the computer-messaging program was created by accident from the failure of a computer game. Slack director of customer experience, Ali Rayl…