An official group of professionals in the UK have banded together to fight financial fraud over email. The Conveyancing Association is calling on lawyers to communicate sensitive information such as bank account details through the mail, rather than via email. The push comes in response to the rise in phishing scams and an increased amount of online fraud.

Email authentication startup ValiMail has raised $1.5 million in seed money. The company offers a service for brands to only send verified emails. The service takes care of SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and allows the sending to use a Web-based interface to create mailings. The service will help companies stay off of blacklists and will prevent their emails from being flagged as spam.

Farmers, a department store in New Zealand has apologized over a Mother's Day marketing email after the company received negative feedback on its Facebook page. The subject line of the email read: "Your Mum sent us her wish list." Some recipients spoke up about how the email was offensive to people who have lost their mothers. The company followed up with an apology email which read: "Farmers would like to apologise for sending an email this morning with a subject line which may have caused hurt or offense. It was certainly not our intention."

This week news has been circulating that Russian hackers got access to the email login details of hundreds of millions of consumers and posted this data on sale on the dark Web for less than $1. But according to some follow-up investigations, its not clear that these data is legitimate and there is no evidence suggesting that the email providers, which include Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft, were even hacked.

FBI investigators will interrogate Hillary Clinton about her private email server, which she used while serving as Secretary of State. The revelation comes after the hacker Guccifer discussed how it was easy to hack into top secret files on the server in an interview with MSNBC.

EasilyDo Mail is a new email app that aims to help users organize their lives through their inbox. The app, which includes swipe gestures for snoozing and archiving, automatically scans an email and organizes it by categories such as subscriptions, travel, bills and receipts, and entertainment. Users can unsubscribe with a single tap, as well as set up notifications for things such as a package delivery or a delayed flight notice.

Microsoft is stressing its 2-step verification process for email after the login data of 33 million users was stolen and put up for sale on the dark web. The Russian hackers that stole the data also access the login credentials for 24 million Gmail users and 40 million Yahoo users.

Hillary Clinton's former aides and possibly the former Secretary of State herself may have to give depositions under oath about the use of a private email server, a federal judge has ordered. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan is allowing depositions of six State Department officials in the lawsuit against the State Department brought by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.

A Russian hacker has stolen the email addresses and logins of 272 million people and is trying to sell the data from less than $1 on the dark web. The list includes millions of Gmail and Hotmail account credentials. Researchers at Hold Security saw the listing on a dark web forum and reached out to verify the validity of the claim.

While presidential candidate Donald Trump may have sailed to the lead position with his use of Twitter and earned media, he may need to concentrate on building his email list to win the election. As of March, Trump only had 819,000 email subscribers, well behind Clinton's list of 7.1 million inboxes and Sanders' 5 million names, according to eDataSource.