The Most Common Vulnerability Of All

Rethinking Email for Privacy and Security Most of the people I know in the world of cybersecurity rightly focus on deeply entrenched matters: server virtualization and containerization, software sandboxing, and helping to train employees to avoid social engineering hacks. But there’s one technology that we all continue to use that hasn’t really evolved at all since the 1960’s: EMAIL. Email was born before the Internet, making it nearly fifty years old. The technology was intended as a way for a limited, known number of users to communicate with each other on a shared Unix mainframe. For that purpose, email was ideally…...