Phishing is still one of the biggest security threats that users face on the Internet. It basically means that criminals are sending emails to users that make them believe they are coming from an email sender that they can trust. Most phishing emails pose as emails from financial organizations like PayPal or banks and ask [...]
Add External Application Links To Thunderbird
We have just reviewed an add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows the user to add software links to one of the Firefox toolbars so that programs can be quickly started from within the browser window.This review now looks at a similar add-on for the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client which also allows users [...]
Microsoft Outlook Mail Attachment Recovery
Most Outlook users think that an email attachment is gone when they delete it in the email client. Only a few know that Microsoft Outlook saves attachments that are considered safe in a temporary Internet files subfolder from where they can be accessed as well if the temporary folder has not been cleared in the [...]
Password Recovery Questions Make Online Accounts Vulnerable
Password recovery questions are great to recover a forgotten password in a matter of seconds. All that needs to be done is to answer the password recovery question to receive a new password in the email inbox. This does however make email hacking a profitable business as email accounts are usually connected to online stores [...]
Trap Spammers with Project Honey Pot
Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in. Spam, however, is stuff that you never signed up for and is often sent to you after some bot saw your email address on some site. Nobody like spam. The guy [...]
Select All Emails From Sender In Thunderbird
Most users of the email client Thundebird – and most likely users of other email clients as well – sort their emails by date. There are other means of sorting emails though like sorting them by subject, sender, priority or attachment. If you sort your emails by date you might have noticed that this is [...]
Use Gmail To Host And Share Photos
Google has recently raised the attachment limit of emails that can be send and received via their email service Gmail to 25 Megabytes. The storage that is offered to all Gmail users exceed 7000 Megabytes which makes Gmail an ideal service for a variety of applications.
We have already seen that it is possible to use [...]
