The National Archives has defended the practice of government officials holding multiple official email accounts and the using personal accounts in some situations, but the organization requires that officials use their business email addresses for official business correspondence in order that the records can be kept accurately. The organization asserted the position this week as part of the House Oversight Committee hearing in which Republicans are accusing former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson of misconduct for using a personal email address with an alias to conduct official business. Jackson has defended the practice claiming that she received millions …

In a hearing on government secrecy, Lisa Jackson, the former EPA administrator, defended her use of using personal email at work. At the House Oversight and Government hearing she explained that she was not the first government employee to use a personal email account at work. "I had a secondary official government account like my predecessors before me, and that was done for time management and to be able to do my job," she said. Her Republican critics claim that she used the email in secrecy to get around federal record-keeping requirements. Republicans explained why Jackson used the alias "Richard …

Scammers are taking advantage of the popularity of Android and sending malicious emails that distribute Android scareware. These apps use scare tactics to trick users into paying for unnecessary services. Security vendor FireEye has identified a spam campaign that kicked off on September 6th and continues to show up in inboxes. The spam emails claim to be failed package delivery notifications from USPS or electronic wedding invitations and link to websites. The email solicits recipients to download an Android package (APK) file called LabelReader.apk which will install FakeDefender, a tool that pretends to be a commercial Android security product but …

Unroll.me, an app that is designed to help users organize their email inboxes, has upgraded its service and has added new integrations with AOL and iCloud. The app already supports Gmail and Yahoo. The app allows users to say which types of emails they want to receive and which they want to unsubscribe from and then it weeds out unwanted apps.

German newspaper Spiegel has reported that it has seen top secret NSA documents which reveal that the US government has been able to access the BlackBerry email system. BlackBerry's email is supposedly encrypted and lives on a secure server and on its phones. The company denies that it has given the NSA back door access to its email platform.

A law student at New York University did not appreciate being woken up to loud music and drunken behavior at 4:20 in the morning. To respond, the anonymous student sent out a school wide email complaint about the offense. "I really didn't want to do this, but seriously. I knocked really loudly, and for a long time," writes the student. "And you're just being the most phenomenally outrageous a**holes right now. So f**k you, sir."

Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson is fighting allegations that she used her personal email address to hide agency business from public view. Jackson will appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing on "preventing violations of federal transparency laws" on Tuesday. She is accused by Republicans of using a personal email account to do official business. "The principle reason I wanted to come here today is to make it perfectly clear that it was my practice to ensure that any official business conducted by me or through my email accounts was appropriately captured …

Girls creator Lena Dunham shared a sexy photo of herself in an email as part of Miranda July's ongoing digital art exhibit called We Think Alone. Every week, July forwards a collection of emails sent by ten famous people based on a specific theme. This week's theme: "An email that includes a picture of yourself." Dunham's email was sent to "E" and she explained the photo as a p.s.s. which read, "i used my macbook to take a photo of me in my costume which is pretty offensive and i thought you might appreciate it, being my lover and all. …

Half of all email marketing messages are opened on the mobile phone, according to a new report from Experian. The Q2 Email Benchmark Study released by Experian Marketing Services last week also revealed that iOS devices are leading the pack when it comes to mobile email. iPhone users made up 68 percent of mobile unique opens and 57 percent of clicks. The iPhone also accounted for 40 percent of mobile email transactions. The iPad garnered 48 percent of transactions, but only 19 percent of emails were opened on the iPad.

A spam email is making the rounds claiming that the United States has already begun bombing Syria. According to Kaspersky Lab, the email first started hitting inboxes on Friday morning in the morning East Coast time. The email contains malware and if a recipient clicks on the links within the email, they will inadvertently download a Trojan onto their computers. Email users are advised to flag the email as spam and avoid opening or clicking any links in the malicious message.