The Email Privacy Act has been introduced to the House. A judiciary committee will consider the bill during the week of April 11. If passed into law, the bill will make it more difficult for the to gain access to someone's email. The legislation would require law enforcement to get a warrant before reading emails that are older than 180 days.

Spammers are getting sophisticated with a new phishing email in circulation in the UK that includes the recipient's home address. The email claims that the recipient owes money to a legitimate organization British Millerain Co Ltd, a waxed cotton fabric manufacturer, and includes malicious links to pay. The BBC contacted the manufacturing firm and found out that they had received more than 100 phone calls from people that did not owe them money.

The State Department's legal team is hoping to control the line of questioning in the Clinton email probe. The department asked a federal judge to limit the discovery of Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that wants to depose Clinton's top aides. Lawyers for the State Department asked that questions only be about "the reasons for the creation of the clintonemail.com system."

Law firm Mossack Fonseca has blamed the hack on its system on "an unauthorized attack of our email server." Hackers stole 2.6 terabytes of data in the breach and shared the information with the press. The stolen data revealed the corrupt offshore banking practices of many world leaders. The scandal led to the resignation of the prime minister of Iceland.

VMware has introduced a new version of its Boxer iOS app. The tool is aimed at companies using VMware to manage their employees mobile devices. VMware Boxer replaces Apple's built-in Mail app and offers additional features such as the ability to swipe email messages, bulk edit messages and set the sound the app makes email lands in the inbox.

Cloud-based email management company Mimecast Ltd has launched a new tool to combat impersonation spam. The Impersonation Protect service takes aim at the rising spear-phishing email attacks in which company officers are impersonated. The new product uses advanced scanning techniques to prevent attacks.

Retailers get the best results from welcome emails, according to a new report from Listrak. The research revealed that 24.9 percent of new customers makes a purchase after clicking on a welcome email. Sixty-four percent of the top performers sent a series of three welcome emails.

The IRS has warned tax payers to beware of emails claiming to come from its agency. Email scams are up 400 percent this year. The agency is also warning accounting departments to beware CEO spam, in which accountants within an organization are sent emails that appear to come from the company's executives. This attack is on the rise and if the employee responds they could expose private employee data.

Insurance company USAA has tapped ad agency MullenLowe U.S. to handle its advertising business. The company fired its former agency Campbell Ewald after one of the agency's creative directors sent out a racist email that was published on Adweek's AgencySpy website in January. The email, sent to colleagues, promoted a "Ghetto Day in San Antonio" and that would involve ghetto music, Malt 45s at lunch, ghetto terminology, and drugs and prostitution.

An associate of Amazon Route 53's domain name registrar must disclose user email addresses that previously had been hidden from WHOIS queries due to the .au Domain Administration's (auDA) privacy policy. Amazon explained in an email to existing customers that under auDA policy, they are not permitted to hide email addresses for .au domains.