A leaked Colin Powell email from May reveals 14 public companies that Salesforce had on its acquisition target list. Interestingly, Adobe, which now has a larger market cap than Salesforce, was on the list. The email was leaked in September by DCLeaks and includes a 60-slide presentation with companies that Salesforce was considering for an acquisition at the time.

The government of Ecuador has shut down WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet access after his site published documents that could affect the US presidential election. Assange lives in the country's London embassy. Ecuador says it has "activated the appropriate contingency plans" to keep WikiLeaks from publishing any more stolen documents before the election.

Cyber security researcher Kevin Beaumont has revealed that Hillary Clinton is not the only presidential candidate with email woes. The researcher discovered that Donald Trump's companies run outdated email systems that could expose them to security issues. The Trump Organization's corporate servers use Microsoft Windows 2003 alongside old server management software. These servers are accessible on the public Internet via Outlook Web Access and do not employ two-factor authentication.

Microsoft has released the public preview of Outlook.com Premium, a new subscription version of its web-focused email service. For $50 a year ($20 a year as part of a promo), the service allows users to access their email inboxes without ads and get up to five personalized email addresses during the first year. The platform will automatically share calendars, contacts and files between those custom addresses.

Democratic strategist James Carville sent out a fundraising email on Monday claiming that Donald Trump's campaign is dead. In the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) email, Carville wrote a seven-word eulogy for the Trump campaign: "It launched. It failed miserably. It died." He went on to urge Democrats to make donations in order to support Democrats in Congressional elections.

The email account of a senior level North Carolina Republican Party official has been hacked. The email has been sending out spam messages ever since. "My email account was compromised, sending out 'phishing' emails to all of my contacts, with a link to a counterfeit site pretending to be Dropbox," Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina GOP, told Politico. "I did not send those emails."

RedWater Technologies has released an app that allows users to check their email on the Xbox One gaming console. The MailOnX app is part of new availability of third-party apps on the device. The service costs $10, and has been designed specifically for the Xbox One.

Jocelyn Glei, author of the new book, Unsubscribe, thinks that people check their email way too often. In an interview with NPR, Glei cited some studies that found that on average people check email 11 times an hour and process 122 messages a day. "Email really is very similar to a slot machine in many ways," she told NPR. "You sort of pull that lever. And you kind of lose. Like, you get something, you know, kind of disappointing. Like, it's an email from an angry customer, or it's an urgent message from your boss to ask you to do …

New documents released on Monday highlight a disagreement between the State Department and the F.B.I. over whether or not some of Hillary Clinton's State Department emails should be considered classified. There was even talk of a possible "quid pro quo" arrangement to settle one particular dispute. In this case, a senior State Department official pushed the FBI to agree that one of Clinton's emails on the 2012 Benghazi attack would be unclassified, despite the FBI's push to leave the email classified.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is seeking answers to reports that Yahoo was scanning user email data and sharing the data with the FBI. In a letter to the DOJ and the National Intelligence agency, organized by Representatives Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, and Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, the lawmakers demanded to know more. "There is a significant confusion regarding the existence and nature of the program described by these reports and the legal questions implicated by the accuracy of specific details," read the letter.