The French government has pushed through the El Khomri law, which is aimed at making work life for management more civilized. Despite not being popular, one of the benefits of the law is banning work email after hours. The law follows the lead of companies like Volkswagen, which turns off its servers after hours, to prevent professionals from being bogged down with work emails at dinner or while they are going to sleep.

Email security firm Agari has raised $22 million in a Series D round of funding. The company aims to fight email phishing with network and domain mapping, along with data. The company is specifically developing tools to prevent the recent trend of CEO spam in which hacker prey on company employees by pretending to be executives at their firm. Norwest Venture Partners led the funding round.

Romanian hacker Guccifer, who allegedly broke into the email accounts of a number of celebrities and politicians, will go in front of a federal court on Wednesday. The 44 year-old is expected to plead guilty as part of a plea bargain. Marcel Lazar Lehel was extradited to the US in March to face the charges.

Email management app Airmail has been updated with a number of new features. This includes the addition of smart folders which helps users determine which boxes emails should be delivered into. Another update lets users designate which contacts they'd like to see notifications from.

A consumer rights group based in Santa Monica, CA has built a searchable database of emails sent between Gov. Jerry Brown's top aides and employees at Pacific Gas & Electric. Consumer Watchdog posted the emails on a new website called PUCPapers.org. The goal is to shed a light on the utility company's relationship with the government before the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno.

Despite the ease of emailing official tax documents, companies should avoid sending 1099s via email. These documents contain personal information such as social security numbers which could be exposed to hackers when sent through insecure email systems that lack encryption. Documents with social security numbers should instead be sent in the mail.

Basketball team, The Milwaukee Bucks, have fallen victim to an email phishing scam. As a result, some of the team's financial data has been exposed. The email claimed to come from team president Peter Feigin and was sent directly to an employee in the accounting department. The employee responded to the email by sending all of the company's employee tax data for 2015.

LinkedIn is fighting back against LeakedSource, a site on which hackers are trying to sell 117 million usernames and passwords stolen from the b-to-b social network as part of a 2012 data breach. LinkedIn attorneys have served a cease and desist order claiming that the site is in violation of California's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because it is "illegally copying and displaying LinkedIn members' information" without consent.

A a prosecutor's office in New York failed to follow up on nine reports of suspicious deaths of developmentally disabled people that were in state care in recent years. The reason: the claims were sent to the wrong email address. The reports were sent to an assistant prosecutor's personal email address, which had been abandoned. In response, the Justice Center has updated its email list and has implemented a new policy of checks and balances. This will entail sending reports directly to a county's top prosecutor, ccing another person and following up with a phone call.

CloudMagic, an email app with a focus on search, has released a new feature that lets users create profiles of people that email them. The Sender Profile feature gives users a quick summary of who is contacting them. The profile includes details such as: location, job title, and LinkedIn and Facebook data.