A junior employee from the State of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development accidentally sent out an email to reporters revealing the press inquires the office had received in the past several weeks. The blast went out to its entire press list and included more than a dozen pending requests.

Rapportive can help email users determine the email address of a person simply with the contact's full name and company domain. The Gmail extension arranges these elements to create common options for the person's real email address. The app will test these email addresses in a Gmail compose window. As soon as the contact's LinkedIn profile shows up to the right, the email is correct.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a group of hackers that allegedly broke into corporate email accounts to steal insider information that they used to inform stock purchases on. The SEC has requested details about data breaches from at least eight listed companies.

The top performing marketing emails earn one forward for every 21 emails, according to a new report from Litmus. The research examined 400,000 email campaigns and found that average-performing campaigns only get about one forward for every 370 opens.

Michael Goo, a former top level official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), used his personal email address to collaborate with the Sierra Club on major greenhouse gas regulations, according to new emails that were made public this week. In a 2011 exchange with John Coequyt, the director of the Sierra Club's international climate programs, Goo revealed plans for the EPA's aNew Source Performance Standard (NSPS) regulations. When finalized, these regulations are expected to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.

D.C. based online security firm Virtru will offer free versions of its email encryption software to 50 high-risk non-profits. The software subscription would cost these firms about $3,000 a year. The free offering puts Virtru in the spotlight and helps raise awareness on the risks that nonprofits face in securing sensitive emails.

Twenty percent of British employees check in with their offices while out on vacation and 32 percent admit to responding to email while on holiday, according to a new report from jobs site CareerBuilder. The research also found that forty percent of these employees have so much work when they return to the office that they wish they had never left.

A Congressional committee has released a new batch of Hillary Clinton's emails released which give a glimpse into the working relationship Clinton had with Sidney Blumenthal. A former journalist and Clinton's communications strategist, Blumenthal worked for the Clinton Foundation during Clinton's time as Secretary of State. Still he sent Clinton a number of emails to her private account in 2011 that included intelligence assessments likely from a CIA insider which helped her deal with Gadhafi.

Google has released an update to Gmail with a new feature that allows users to "Undo Send". The option will only work for up to 30 seconds after a user hits the send button. The feature is not enabled by default, the user has to add this option to their account in their Gmail settings.

The Office of Personnel Management has been in a huge mess ever since it was hacked, exposing the records of millions of federal employees. The OPM sent out an email offering credit monitoring and identity protection to employees whose records may have been stolen and many people didn't open it because they feared it was spam. That is a good thing, since now spammers have turned an identical letter into a phishing scam.