The Register
Intel Security is shutting down its software-as-a-service email security products in order to roll this type of service into its cloud-based product. The company revealed the news in an email sent to customers of its McAfee SaaS Endpoint Products and SaaS Email Protection and Archiving tools. Intel Security will stop selling the products on January 11, 2016 and will no longer provide support for the products past January 11, 2019.
BBC
Dido Harding, CEO of TalkTalk, has revealed that she received an email demanding a ransom from a group claiming to be behind the company's recent hack. She said she did not know whether the email was legitimate, but the Metropolitan police is investigating the email, along with the attack. The company was hit last week for the third time. The attack exposed the data of more than 4 million users including: names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and credit card details.
Direct Marketing News
Only 38% of email marketing executives think that their marketing departments had common goals, according to a new report from Epsilon and The Relevancy Group. The research also revealed that only 37% of email marketings feel that they are succeeding in executing integrated multichannel campaigns. "If organizations can't bring their people or their data together, they won't be successful," Pam McAtee, SVP of digital solutions at Epsilon, told "Direct Marketing News."
Yahoo
Email security firm Sendio has published an e-book about why email security is suffering so many issues these days. The e-book, entitled "7 Data-Backed Reasons That Show Most Email Security Isn't That Secure," explores how network threats continue to grow each year, despite companies' best efforts to protect themselves. The e-book comes out as email breaches have been affecting large companies and high levels of the government.
ABC News
WikiLeaks has released CIA director John Brennan's contacts list -- data that was exposed when his personal email account was hacked last week. The release is WikiLeak's second release from Brennan's emails. Earlier this week, the group posted several highly classified documents. The group has warned that there is more to come.
ComputerWeekly
British telecommunications company TalkTalk has warned users that the company's servers have been hacked for the third time. The most recent attack, which the company attributed to a Russian jihadist cyberterrorist group, exposed the data of more than 4 million users. Exposed data includes: names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and credit card details.
Krebs On Security
Security blogger Brian Krebs has released a controversial new report calling IBM's SoftLayer cloud platform as "the Internet's most spam-friendly" service provider. Krebs identified the platform as a bad performer in his 2010 book. Now anti-spam group Spamhaus is claiming that the company's platform has the worst abuse departments and "consequently, the worst reputations for knowingly hosting spam operations."
Computing.com
Forty percent of IT professionals use encrypted email, according to a new study conducted among Computing readers. The research also revealed that more 42 percent of IT professionals don't use email encryption and 18 percent wouldn't share.
NPR
More than half of Alabama's House members use personal email addresses to conduct official business, according to NPR. Alabama Representative Tim Wadsworth claims that he uses the account in order to get his messages quickly on his iPad. Since he also uses the device for personal business, he doesn't want to be caught using his work email for personal business that he also conducts on the device.
Gizmodo
In 1985 the tech nonprofit RAND issued a report on the future of email, well before the mode of communication would become mainstream. The best practices document, titled "Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail," made several recommendations that are still quite relevant today. "Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn't want appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow's front-page headline in the New York Times," reads the document.