Forty-five percent of email users click through to malicious links when they receive a spam email, according to new research from Google. The company found that 14 percent of the people that clicked on these links actually shared their personal information including a user name and password on the site. The research also revealed that 20 percent of compromised accounts are hacked into within half and hour.

Skillsoft, a Canadian firm that offers professional courses to government employees,has apologized for an email breach that exposed the email addresses of more than 4,000 people. The company accidentally sent out an email to people who had signed up for government-funded online training courses, ccing everyone on the list.

Google's latest email application Inbox may not be all that it is cracked up to be. The inbox organization tool, which is designed to make a user's inbox actionable and organized, is not garnering the best reviews. The San Jose Mercury News reports that "Inbox isn't intuitive." The reviewer said that even after having the app for a few weeks, "I spent hours fiddling with it and had assistance from Google that most people wouldn't have. Even after a few weeks, I still spend more time managing my email than I did with the Gmail app."

Email is the channel that consumers desire to receive coupons through, according to a new report from Accenture data and charted by Business Insider Intelligence. The research reveals that 44 percent of US shoppers said that they preferred to get offers via email. The metrics also revealed that 29 percent of consumers wanted to see coupons in their mailbox, versus 3 percent that reported looking for coupons in social media.

The Navy has revealed plans to migrate its entire email platform to the cloud. The agency piloted a Microsoft Office 365 cloud platform in October. If group decides to extend this partnership, Navy reservists will be able to access their email and parts of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) without having to be physically onsite, something that they cannot do now.

Home Depot has revealed that its recent data breach was worse than was previously thought. The hack exposed more than 53 million customer email addresses, the retailer revealed this week. This is on top of the 56 million credit cards that they company first reported.

Yoyo.email has won a lawsuit which will allow the company to keep thousands of .email domain names it registered. The company registered more than 4,000.email domain names using the names of big brands, including 7eleven.email, Geico.email and Budlight.email. Yoyo.email has plans to use the domain names for a certified email service.

Costa Rica is no longer requiring citizens to have an email address in order to obtain a driver's license. The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court ruled the policy unconstitutional to register their email address in order to receive updates from the Roadway Safety Council (COSEVI). The agency said that it uses email to update drivers on expired driver's licenses, traffic fines, etc. but now plans to do so through other channels.

President Barack Obama responded to yesterday's election in an email sent out to White House email subscribers. In the message, he congratulated Republicans in their defeat. "But what stands out to me is that the message Americans sent yesterday is one you've sent for several elections in a row now," he wrote in the email. "You expect the people you elect to work as hard as you do. You expect us to focus on your ambitions -- not ours -- and you want us to get the job done. Period."

Marketers are failing to connect their marketing efforts across channels, according to a new report from The Relevancy Group sponsored by Yes Lifecycle Marketing. The report, entitled, "From Acquisition to Advocacy: Discovering the Value of Lifecycle Marketing," included feedback from more than 300 marketing executives and found that only 22 percent of marketing executives at medium-sized companies felt confident in their cross channel coordination.