News & Reviews:   email

Global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, Kaspersky has revealed that Malaysia ranked 10th in the top 20 countries targeted by malicious mailings last year. In fact, in 2022, our country saw an increase of 18 million malicious email attachments from previous years.

Besides the recent scam of an elderly person trying to get an Enhanced TnG card, there's another ongoing scam called "Bonus Hadiah Keluarga TM". Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to highlight that the emails were not officially issued so please ignore this fake contest. 

Gmail users worldwide have been reporting a bug at the top of their emails in the form of a grey banner with an exclamation in a hexagon for the past two days. The bug, which asks users whether they want to ‘continue receiving messages from this sender’ are reportedly appearing too frequently (even with contacts and frequent senders) to the annoyance of users.

Facebook has made a few questionable decisions over the years, both internally in terms of management as well as relating to the platform’s algorithm and features. Well, it seems that Meta’s popular social media platform is at it again, this time by reportedly locking out users who doesn’t activate Facebook Protect out of their Facebook accounts. 

Worse, some users are even saying that they weren’t made aware of the necessity of turning on Facebook Protect. In fact, the only notice they got was from a spam-like email from Facebook titled “Your account requires advanced security from Facebook Protect”.

Google is rolling out a handy feature to its Microsoft Word alternative, Google Docs. As part of the "smart canvas" initiative, the platform will provide users with an email template by allowing them directly draft emails to be sent out via Gmail.

A recent report by cybernews.com seems to hint that more than 3.2 billion emails and passwords from platforms such as Netflix, LinkedIn, and more have recently been leaked online. According to our source, it seems that the list of user credentials was a compilation of multiple breaches that have happened previously.

Are you addicted to your smartphone? In this modern era where almost everyone has one for work and play, it's hard to tell if one is really addicted. To answer that, a recent study was carried out by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and here are the results.

Based on an article by bleepingcomputer.com, it seems that more than 500000 zoom accounts containing several private information including email address and password was sold on the dark web not too long ago. The source mentioned that the accounts sold were priced at USD0.002(~RM0.0087) each, for a grand total of around USD1000(~RM4350) for the whole bulk.

This June, Google will be rolling out Gmail confidential mode to all users starting on the 25th of June. Technically, it works just like a self-destructing email would - the email will come with an expiration date whereby the email will be wiped out then. Senders may also revoke the email. As for the receiver, they are not able to forward, copy or download the email. This mode is perfect for emailing out sensitive data.