Password Sniffer Console is a new tool to help email, web and FTC users save their login details. The tool analyzes network traffic that passes through a user's system to help find login credentials, so that users don't have to remember every password they create.

Softpedia.com has revealed a spam message in circulation that is targeting Google users. The message, which was sent out during the third week of December 2014, claimed to be from the Mail System Administrator at Google and claims that the user's inbox is almost full. The email encourages users to free up space and click on a secondary malicious link to login.

Email startup Glip is a social collaboration platform that wants to reduce email overload. To do so, the company has been integrating with the likes of project management provider Asana, along with Trello, Zendesk, Dropbox and Mailchimp, to help make the digital workroom more centralized. The process has eliminated the need to receive an email notification and the need for back and forth email communications at work.

Email open rates in Q3 2014 were up 6.5 percent compared to Q3 2013, according to a new report from Epsilon. The "Q3 2014 North America Email Trends and Benchmarks" report analyzed email performance of 8.7 billion emails across approximately 140 clients. The report also found that click rates declined modestly from 4.5 percent in Q3 2013 to 4 percent Q3 2014.

Vodafone users have experienced an outage. The company said that the issue left some customers without email via webmail last night. The network outage has been fixed and customers should now be able to send and receive emails.

Canadian entrepreneur Keith Gallant has raised money for his startup Email Opened and is using the money to hire a new CEO. Rob Gowans will serve as the company's new CEO. Email Opened is an email marketing services platform for small businesses counting about 1,500 customers.

Cloud-based document and email management service NetDocuments has acquired analytics and intelligence firm Decisiv Email from Recommind, in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. The acquisition includes Decisiv Email's technology along with its development team. The move brings NetDocuments intelligence tools including predictive email filing.

The European Commission has yet to take sides in the battle between the DOJ and Microsoft over the jurisdiction of emails stored on servers in Ireland. US prosecutors want Microsoft to hand over emails stored on a server in Ireland as part of a criminal investigation, but Microsoft is fighting for the privacy rights of users. Ireland has come to Microsoft's defense along with many members of the tech community.

Ladar Levison, the founder of the now shuttered secure email service Lavabit, is working to build encryption into email at the source. As a member of the Darkmail Technical Alliance, Levison and his colleagues are working on a project called DIME, the Dark Internet Mail Environment. The idea is to create a replacement for existing email servers that uses DMTP (the Dark Mail Transfer Protocol) and DMAP (Dark Mail Access Protocol) in order to make encrypting emails default.

Clarizen is the first company to get a patent for its enterprise collaboration products. The patent is for a platform called InterAct, an email engine that allows people to create triggers for specific projects such as approvals or the creation of new projects. "This patent is an important technical milestone for Clarizen, one that has been in the making for several years," Avinoam Nowogrodski, founder and CEO of Clarizen, told Beta News.