You’ve been happily using free email for years, and haven’t thought much about it. You’ve been happily using “free” email for years, and haven’t thought much about it. The problem is that it’s not truly free—you’re paying with your...
Do you use email aliases? Aliases are a great tool that can help protect your identity, reduce spam, and organize your inbox. Aliases are alternative email addresses that you can use to separate emails. Instead of using the same address for everything, you set...
When we go online or use apps, we are being tracked. Companies collect our personal data by tracking us across the web sites we visit. They build profiles on us based on our browsing history and online behavior. They want to sell us their products and...
Suddenly you are noticing strange things happening with your email. You’re receiving email messages about login attempts, password resets and two-factor authentication codes, and your friends and family are wondering why you’re sending them weird emails....
There’s an uptick in phishing emails again. Here’s a refresher. In the past few weeks there have been a series of phishing attacks aimed at a small subset of Runbox customers. The goal of these scams is to trick unsuspecting email users into clicking on...
One of the main objectives for the European Union (EU) when they developed the replacement for the Data Protection Directive 95/46 (from 1995), was to expand individual control over the use of personal data. This can be seen in a broader view as an implementation of...
At Runbox we are continuously working to improve the security of our services. We are now strengthening the security of your web browser’s connection to our servers to ensure that it utilizes modern web security standards. If you are using an updated version of...
In part 3 of this blog series we described how we mapped the “world” of our operations, including the following components: Server infrastructure, including all servers and other hardware as well as the links between these. Software components that comprise our...
In previous posts in this blog series we have referred to our main planning document, Rules and Regulations for Information Security Management, or RRISM for short, where our road to GDPR compliance started out. In that document we worked out the structure of the...
