Tag: Hotmail

More secure encryption introduced to Microsoft’s email services

As part of a drive to increase security and better protect user’s private information Microsoft has introduced new encryption for its email services. TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption is now available across Hotmail, Outlook, Live and MSN. In addition to beefing up security for email, the company has also brought Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) encryption ...

Google launches Encrypted E-mails Chrome extension

You probably already knew that Google’s Gmail supports encryption. But did you know that when a Gmail user e-mails somebody using an unencrypted service, the message isn’t protected? In fact up to half of all e-mails sent to, and from Gmail are not encrypted because of this. To fix the situation Google intends to start ...