Google's latest Customer Match release allows advertisers to better understand customer intent by connecting historical search data on top of other Google services like Gmail and YouTube. The tool lets marketers upload lists of email addresses and match them to signed-in Google users on Gmail, Search and YouTube.

Employees of The United States Postal Service can't necessarily spot a spam email. According to a new report from a federal watchdog agency, Postal Service employees failed to identify and report phishing emails in a test. The report raises issues as a hacker exposed the personal information of more than 800,000 workers last year.

Hillary Clinton's controversial private email server was the target of cyberattacks, according to new reports. The server, which she used while serving as Secretary of State, saw attempted attacks from China, Germany and South Korea. Most of the time, the server had security software that prevented the attacks but for its first three months had no protection.

Teenagers respond to emails on average within 13 minutes whereas 51 year olds take an average of 47 minutes to hit reply, according to a new study from researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The group researched the factors that influence how people respond to emails in order to identify who is most likely to respond to emails the fastest. Gender didn't have a major influence on how quickly someone responded, but device did. A laptop users takes about twice as long as a mobile phone user to respond to an email.

Hackers are targeting Microsoft's Outlook Web App with a password stealing malware. Researchers from security firm Cybereason have identified the threat which can steal a company's passwords over time. The company raised alarms when a client's security team noticed behavioral abnormalities.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hoping to make email more secure. The organization is working on two different projects to do so including a document with guidelines to enhance trust in email, as well as an initiative the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) seeking experts to establish standards-based email tools.

Google Domains now allows users to create custom email addresses for their registered websites. The service launched in beta last year but is now widely available. For $5 a month per users, a client can create custom email addresses. In addition, Google has created new TLDs including .pizza, so a user can have an email address such as john@pizza.com.

A federal judge has scheduled two hearings for lawsuits involving the private email system used by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state. The hearings have been scheduled for February. The cases are two of more than three dozen Freedom of Information Act request lawsuits filed in regards to Clinton's use of a private email server.

Virgin Media customers that use Ntlworld.com for their email accounts have been having legitimate emails blocked from their inbox for several days. The issue comes after the ISP migrated from Google's Gmail. The migration opened the flood gates for massive amounts of spam email messages. Virgin corrected this with a new spam filter, but it appears to be oversensitive and legitimate mail is not getting in.

Experian has apologized after hackers broke into one of its servers and stole the personal data of more than 15 million U.S. consumers. The hackers specifically accessed the people who applied for T-Mobile USA services from Sept. 1, 2013, through Sept. 16, 2015. The data includes names, social security numbers and email addresses.