Email Security

New Email Security Standards: What They Mean for Your Inbox If you’ve been paying attention to email lately, you might have noticed fewer obvious scams landing in your main inbox. That’s not an accident. Over the past few years, major email providers and industry groups have been pushing a set of technical standards designed to make phishing and spoofing harder. Standards like DMARC, DKIM, and SPF are increasingly the norm, not just for big companies but for everyday users too. ...

Your AI Email Assistant Could Be a Security Risk: What to Know About the MCP Server Threat If you use an AI assistant that reads or drafts your emails, you’re trusting it with one of your most sensitive accounts. That trust is being exploited in a new kind of supply chain attack—one that targets the Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers these tools rely on. ...

Malicious MCP Servers: A New Threat to Your Email Security – What to Do If you use an AI assistant that can read your emails, schedule meetings, or reply to messages, you might be relying on something called a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. These servers act as bridges between the AI and your tools—Gmail, Outlook, Slack, or calendars. They let the AI access your data or perform actions on your behalf. ...

Is Your Financial Administrator Putting Your Data at Risk? How to Spot Poor Email Security When you’re already dealing with money trouble—debt, credit repair, or budgeting help—the last thing you need is a data breach from the very people you trusted to help. Yet a recent report from the NL Times found that many financial administrators fall short on basic email security, leaving clients’ sensitive financial information exposed. For individuals who have to share pay stubs, bank statements, tax forms, and other personal documents, this is not a minor risk. ...

Your Financial Administrator’s Email Could Be Putting You at Risk — Here’s What to Do When you receive an email from a debt collector, mortgage broker, or other financial administrator, your first instinct is probably to assume they have your best interests in mind—or at least that they handle your sensitive information carefully. Recent reporting suggests that assumption may be unwarranted. A growing body of evidence, including reporting from NL Times, indicates that many financial administrators operate with weak email security, leaving clients—especially those already in financial distress—vulnerable to data breaches and identity theft. ...

Is Your Debt Relief Agency Putting Your Data at Risk? How to Protect Yourself If you’re working with a debt relief agency or a financial administrator, you’re likely sharing sensitive information like bank statements, tax returns, identification documents, and account numbers. A recent investigation by NL Times (June 2026) found that many of these administrators have poor email security, leaving that personal data exposed to interception, theft, or accidental leaks. The article specifically noted that people already struggling with money are especially vulnerable, as they often have little choice but to cooperate quickly. ...

How to Protect Your Finances from Email Security Lapses at Financial Administrators If you’re struggling with debt, working with a financial administrator – a debt counselor, tax preparer, or small-business accountant – you probably assume they take care of your sensitive data. A recent investigation by NL Times (June 8, 2026) suggests that assumption may be risky. The report found that many financial administrators have weak email security, leaving their clients’ financial information exposed to attackers. ...

Amazon Says SES Requires TLS 1.2, But Testing Shows It Often Doesn’t – Here’s What to Do If you rely on Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to send transactional or marketing emails, you may have assumed that TLS 1.2 encryption is now mandatory on every delivery. After all, Amazon officially announced that all SES connections must use TLS 1.2 or higher by June 2026. But recent testing by Paubox suggests that the policy is not being fully enforced in practice. Some emails are still transmitted with weaker encryption, or even without encryption at all. ...

Malicious MCP Servers: A New Threat to Your Email Security – What to Know If you use an AI assistant that can read your inbox, draft replies, or manage calendar invites, you are relying on something called a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. These servers act as the bridge between an AI agent and the tools it controls—including your email account. And like any bridge, they can be crossed by attackers. ...

Is Amazon SES Actually Enforcing TLS 1.2? Here’s What You Need to Know A recent investigation by email security firm Paubox has raised questions about Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES) and its enforcement of TLS 1.2. According to Amazon’s own documentation, SES requires TLS 1.2 for all outbound email connections. But Paubox’s testing suggests that the service still accepts messages sent over older, less secure protocols like TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 without rejecting them. This discrepancy has left many developers and IT administrators unsure whether they need to upgrade their email configurations—or whether they already have. ...