The Atlantic Philanthropies foundation was the victim of a phishing attack. Spammers sent an email on behalf of the New York-based nonprofit saying that they were closing up shop in 2020 and to help spend its money was giving away $1 million to the recipient. The email included links to a malicious landing page which solicited banking and social security information from recipients.

Mailbox, Dropbox's inbox management app, has released a new update for iOS 8 which includes support for interactive notifications. The app now allows users to hit snooze on messages as well as to archive new emails directly from push notifications.

Email newsletters delivered on Monday evening have the highest open rates, according to a new report from MailerMailer. The report looked at 62,000 US newsletters sent last year and found that emails that hit the inbox on Mondays had a 12 percent open rate.

Microsoft has debuted a new tool for Office 365 business customers that helps them manage their inboxes within Outlook. The tool is called Clutter and works similar to Google's Priority Inbox for Gmail. The tool uses data to identify a customer's actions over time and determines which emails they are likely to ignore. These messages are then filtered into the "Clutter" box and don't appear in the main inbox.

BrowserStack, a digital tool used by brands including Visa, Microsoft and eBay to test their web browsers across platforms, has been hacked. The hack came to light after customers began receiving spam messages from BrowserStack telling recipients that the service was shutting down. The company tweeted that they had been hacked and are working on the issue.

Email communications between doctors and patients are highly effective, yet most doctors don't use email. According to a new report from policy journal Health Affairs, only 10 percent of doctors are communicating with their patients via email.

Tibetan monks don't believe in attachments and they are taking this philosophy to heart when it comes to email. After being the target of spammers, the Tibet Action Institute, a digital security group, has come up with a new motto: "We have to learn to be suspicious of email attachments." The idea is to educate monks on Internet security.

Max Nalsky, the founder and CEO of a professional communications platform called Pyrus does not think that email is the most effective way for workers to communicate. In a column penned for The Next Web, Nalsky argues that a little or no email policy at work will help companies be more effective. According to some stats Nalsky includes, the average office worker gets 110 messages a day and spends 28 percent of his time processing emails.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection office has warned residents about an email scam that appears to offer free pizza from Pizza Hut. The email claims that Pizza Hut is celebrating its 55th anniversary and is giving away free personal pizzas in order to celebrate. The email calls users to click on a button to "Get Free Pizza Coupon," but the link directs to a malicious site.

Unions may soon be able to use their company's email systems to organize. The National Labor Relations Board may overturn a 2007 ruling that found that employees don't have right to use their workplace's email platform for such purposes. The question is being investigated as part of a case in which a California union has complained that a company's email rule is too strict and is in violation of workers' rights.