Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return Sorry, that IP address is on the naughty step Off-Prem17 Jan 2022 | 81
Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server Happy New Year. Welcome back! Now apply this patch – which Microsoft warns isn't easy – if you want email to work Software03 Jan 2022 | 33
FBI spams thousands with fake infosec advice after 'software misconfiguration' Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose Feds' failings as a public service. We want to believe Security15 Nov 2021 | 9
BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day Updated Call that an outage? Now this is an outage Off-Prem12 Nov 2021 | 49
NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day Security20 Oct 2021 | 60
Something phishy: Tech recruiters jabbed by fake COVID-19 Passport scam Tells clients it is tackling the issue Security17 Sep 2021 | 15
Open redirect on UK council website was being used for Royal Mail-themed parcel payments scam Updated Homes4Wiltshire, aka Homes4Spammers Security13 Sep 2021 | 2
IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out Behind the curtain: Server crashes, thumbs down on Slack, staff compared to shoemaker's kids, and more Software08 Jul 2021 | 74
UK's data watchdog probes use of private email to discuss government business at the Department of Health Information Commissioner cites loss of transparency as reason for inquiry Security07 Jul 2021 | 25
Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself Column Quit financial engineering and go back to your roots, IBM Off-Prem05 Jul 2021 | 43
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say Thousands struggle with intermittent failure of multiple messaging services On-Prem30 Jun 2021 | 136
Autoforwarding in Exchange Online falls over due to a problematic spam rule deployment Updated If only there were an AI to do what Microsoft's engineers don't seem to be able to SaaS26 May 2021 | 8
East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder 'Was a Mailchimp sub too hard?!' asks Reg reader Security05 May 2021 | 26
Nigerian email scammer sent down for 40 months in the US, ordered to pay back $2.7m to victims Among the victims: the United Nations Security14 Apr 2021 | 18
BP Chargemaster's Pulse rebrand let crims send IcedID banking trojan from formerly legit mailboxes F-Secure confirms nature of email nasty to El Reg Security25 Mar 2021 | 12
ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files Security11 Mar 2021 | 17
Subway email weirdness: Suspicion grows over apparent Trickbot trojan delivery campaign Updated If you got an unexpected message from the not-footlong guys, don't click links Security11 Dec 2020 | 19
Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more Messsage Center: Call this number. Number: Use the Message Center. Security08 Dec 2020 | 200
Compsci guru wants 'right to be forgotten' for old email, urges Google and friends to expire, reveal crypto-keys DKIM 'makes us all more vulnerable to extortion, blackmail,' argues Green Security19 Nov 2020 | 88
Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field Hundreds of email addresses exposed, customers predictably less-than-thrilled Security17 Nov 2020 | 16
TalkTalk marches OneTel users into a brave new email world You will be upgraded, whether you want to be or not SaaS05 Oct 2020 | 17
Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance Security01 Oct 2020 | 11
You have to be very on-trend as a cybercrook – hence why coronavirus-themed phishing is this year's must-have look F-Secure gives its take on the first half of 2020 in internet scumminess Security17 Sep 2020 | 6
University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online Institute says the knowledge needed to run it is fading, but the move wasn't without opposition SaaS04 Aug 2020 | 152
Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs Security04 Aug 2020 | 80
About ready to POP3: Day 6 of email wobbles at UK2 after services provider Tucows suffers 'service failure' Updated 15% of customers affected as Canadian partner promises 'full mailbox services' today Networks22 Jul 2020 | 9
Email seems lost in the post? You might be a Tsohost customer Print it out, pop a stamp on it, stick it in a pillar box. Might have been quicker SaaS09 Jul 2020 | 18
TsoHost swings axe at 'legacy' DIY website builder MrSite, giving customers a month to find alternative arrangements Celebrating two years of merged activities by hitting the Off button Legal05 Jun 2020 | 8
Go on, hit Reply All. We dare you. We double dare you. Because Office 365 will defeat your server-slamming ways New Exchange Reply-All-stopper is rolling out in the cloud now SaaS08 May 2020 | 49
Think before filling in that convenient flight refund form with all your delicious details – there's a scam going about Email ruse preying on COVID-19 fears sends data to crims, warns Mimecast Security15 Apr 2020 | 4
Something something DANE cook: Microsoft pledges to wrap its email systems in secure anti-snooping protocol Office 365 will finally get DNSSEC-based protection later this year SaaS07 Apr 2020 | 14
New year, old threats: Malware peddlers went into overdrive in Q1, says Trend Micro Jan and Feb contained bumper load of fake invoice emails Security07 Apr 2020 | 2
Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor Bootnotes26 Mar 2020 | 82
Nigerian spammer made 3X average national salary firehosing macro-laden Word docs at world+dog And his boss monitored him with a RAT Security17 Mar 2020 | 13
Health workers are top of phishers' target lists thanks to data value Interview And HR folks aren't far behind, says Proofpoint strategist Security16 Mar 2020 | 15
Tutanota cries 'censorship!' after secure email biz blocked – for real this time – in Russia Move over, there's plenty of room on Putin's naughty step Security17 Feb 2020 | 19
Thunderbird is go: Mozilla's email client lands in a new nest Around 0.5% of emails opened in the 'bird today, according to one analytics tracker survey Software30 Jan 2020 | 114
150 infosec bods now know who they're up against thanks to BT Security cc/bcc snafu Mass-mail fail followed outfit's appearance at jobs fair Security12 Nov 2019 | 47
I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing Nor is he called Andrew, but he's still getting messages about Dart Charge Personal Tech12 Nov 2019 | 199
A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently You wouldn't want to make workers anxious by cutting them off, wouldya? – study Personal Tech16 Oct 2019 | 65
Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts Which cost Lake District land seller £25,000 Legal30 Sep 2019 | 155
TalkTalk still struggles to shut down legacy email addresses on request Another ex-customer struggles to get hacked account killed off Security26 Sep 2019 | 27
Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!) Updated FFS! SaaS05 Sep 2019 | 73
TSO Host no closer to solving customers' email issues as Brit firm pops up on more blacklists Updated Punters bemoan comms silence with no fix in sight SaaS20 Aug 2019 | 24
Canadian ISP Telus launches novel solution to deal with excess email: Crash your servers and wipe it all Dell-EMC storage blunder leaves Canucks fuming for four days Storage19 Aug 2019 | 37
Microsoft blocked TSO Host's email IPs from Hotmail, Outlook inboxes and no one seems to care Apart from the poor sods paying for the service, that is Channel09 Aug 2019 | 50
Can't get infected via email if your messages aren't delivered: Seven-hour slowdown hits Symantec cloud filters Wondering why your inbox was so clear? Bad news… Security10 Jun 2019 | 15
It's not chicken feed: Million-dollar meal deal for livestock sabotaged by hackers... and, er, exchange rates Six-week investigation delay shrank payment by 13% Security17 May 2019 | 16
Be wary of emails with links to ... er, Google Drive? Is that right? Alibaba, Azure and more used for badness, warns infosec biz Security07 May 2019 | 28
No fax given: Blighty's health service bods told to ban snail mail, too Trusts to choose between secure email providers (not just Accenture's NHSmail) Legal13 Feb 2019 | 67
Lawyers' secure email network goes down, firm says it'll take 2 weeks to restore Updated 75,000 lawyers subject to potential fortnight of faffery SaaS18 Jan 2019 | 46
Baddies just need one email account with clout to unleash phishing hell Outsiders realised uni was hacked before uni did Security24 Sep 2018 | 19
Feel the shame: Email-scammed staffers aren't telling bosses about it Fraud on rise and IT workers (of all people) most susceptible Security07 Sep 2018 | 38
Welcome! Mimecast finds interesting door policies on email filters Microsoft and Proofpoint servers ushered in 15,656 malware attachments Security30 Aug 2018 | 15
I feel a plead... a plead for speed: FastMail naps amid network blunder Not our fault insists email slinger as customers twiddle thumbs Networks01 Aug 2018 | 16
Boffin botheration as IET lifts axe on 20-year-old email alias service IET phone home. Just don't email... Personal Tech10 Jul 2018 | 33
They grow up so fast: Spam magnet Hotmail turned 22 today Go on. Log in one more time. Just for posterity Software04 Jul 2018 | 78
In non-startling news, EFF says STARTTLS email crypto is mostly done wrong And so it's trying to kick off an effort to fix that up, because security and privacy matter Security26 Jun 2018 | 23
Law forcing Feds to get warrants for email slurping is sneaked into US military budget House slips privacy rules into Senate's files, crosses fingers Security30 May 2018 | 27
BCC is hard, OK? Quite a lot of orgs blurted your email addresses in GDPR mailouts Ad blocker Ghostery, UK councils, vitamin sellers all in the blabtastic mix Security29 May 2018 | 49
Zimmerman and friends: 'Are you listening? PGP is not broken' EFAIL furore not over yet, even though it's easy to fix Security25 May 2018 | 20
S/MIME artists: EFAIL email app flaws menace PGP-encrypted chats If a hacker can get into your inbox of ciphered messages, they may be able to read the content Security14 May 2018 | 44