Data breaches that make the news usually involve massive corporations with vast datasets. But small businesses must also prevent cyberattacks and data breaches, and most don’t feel prepared. “We lost $10,000 due to a cyberattack on our mainframe in which a hacker was able to access financial data.” “An email was sent from a banking …

Small business cyber security is often overlooked, either due to a lack of expertise or funding. This is a mistake. Cyberattacks are costly to mitigate but potentially more costly to recover from after they occur. Managers can improve their small business’s cyber security by creating a security-conscious culture in the workplace. There are two things …

Earlier today claims appeared that ProtonMail is compromised because of an alleged connection between our SSL certificates and DarkMatter, a shadowy cybersecurity company. These allegations are false, as we will explain. Earlier today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that the Emirati cybersecurity firm DarkMatter had applied to become a top-level certificate authority. Certificate authorities (CA) …

Tech companies are scooping up your children’s data before they are old enough to give informed consent. As a parent, you can help protect your children’s privacy online by using the right services and updating the settings on their devices. If your child is old enough to have a smartphone, then there’s a good chance …

With ProtonMail version 3.14 we introduce PGP support, which includes import of PGP keys into ProtonMail contacts for encrypted communication with external PGP users, address verification with trusted keys, and several other improvements. PGP Sending All ProtonMail users can now associate public keys with individual addresses in their contacts to enable encrypted communication with addresses …

If your Firefox browser does not pass our compatibility check due to session storage and you are already using the latest version, here’s how you can enable it.

In ProtonMail v1.11 and up, we support the importing of your existing email contacts from other email service providers (ESPs). The process takes just a few minutes and is outlined here:

ProtonMail is very much a work in progress, as a result, we will be frequently releasing new versions with bugfixes and additional features. Whenever a new version is released, it is usually good practice to clear your browser cache before continuing to use ProtonMail. A good website we recommend for instructions on how to do …

January 12th 2015 update: As part of the version 1.12 deploy, we have improved our notification system.  You can now toggle notification on or off in the settings page while keeping the outside email for password recovery purposes.  If you have new unseen email that has not already been notified, the new system will send you a …

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