Most U.S. managers will email or text their employees after hours, unlike bosses in Europe, where after-hours emailing is illegal, according to a survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Of 150 supervisors polled, 82.9% will reach out, and28.6% would expect a response within a few hours. 

Equifax is investigating another potential cyber breach, and has taken down one of its customer web pages, the company said Thursday. An independent security analyst said part of the firm’s website was under the control of attackers. Their objective: to install fraudulent Adobe Flash updates containing malware.  

Professional services firm Accenture insecurely stored data on “misconfigured cloud-based servers from Amazon Web Services,” SC Magazine alleges. Malicious actors could have used exposed credentials to impersonate the firm, according to an UpGuard blog post. 

Your firm may have the perfect email subject line: Open rates go through the roof. Then you find that few people have clicked through. What happened? Zach Heller explores the unintended consequences of subject lines. 

One out of every nine email users has received a malicious email in the first half of 2017, according to a report titled “Email Threats 2017,” from Symantic. In addition, email users are way more likely to be targeted for cyber attacks via email than with other means. 

Ometria, a provider of a customer marketing platform, has raised $6 million in Series A funding, for a total of $11 million. The firm competes with email service firms such asEmarsys, Sailthru, Selligent, Bronto, Dotmailer, and with companies that offer behavioral marketing tools.  

Mozilla awarded $100,000 to RiseUp, an email platform widely used by progressive groups.  The money will be used for “open source software development designed to let anyone to run a secure email service,” a spokesperson said. Mozilla  has given $500,000 to various open-source projects over the past six months. 

Apple released iOS 11 last month. And that could mean changes for email marketers whose messages are read on mobile phones. Here’s an update on how to cope with it.  

Mimecast is offering an automated email management system called Mimecast Cloud Archive. The storage system ensures that emails will not be lost if a site suffers an outage. 

Equifax has been grilled by legislators over its massive data hack. Those lawmakers have proposed fining companies for every piece of compromised data. This new approach could make it easier for consumers to win damages in litigation.