NOYB sues Google over advertising emails
Privacy action group NOYB is suing Google for allegedly violating a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). According to NOYB, Google illegally pushes unsolicited advertising emails to the inboxes of Gmail users.
NOYB's complaint to the French watchdog CNIL argues that Google violates a E... Read more
Hackers use Google Doc comment emails to trick security tools
Avanan, a cybersecurity company, has shown a rise in the use of Google Docs’ productivity features to sneak malicious content past spam filters and security tools. Jeremey Fuchs, from Avanan, said the company saw cyberattackers use the comment feature in Google Docs over December to attack Outloo... Read more
Finnish Parliament was hacked and MPs’ emails breached
The Finnish Parliament stated that hackers breached its internal IT system and gained access to email accounts belonging to members of parliament (MPs). Finland’s government officials said that the attack happened in the fall of 2020 and was not discovered until this month by the IT staff that ru... Read more
Microsoft’s new AI tool creates to-do lists using sent emails
A new AI from Microsoft automatically generates to-do lists based on sent emails. Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft's AI team announced the tool in a pre-print research paper.
The Smart To-Do tool uses AI to scan all outgoing emails for usable text, then converts these ... Read more
Microsoft Outlook gets a new text prediction feature
Microsoft is working on a new text prediction feature for Outlook. The new feature is similar to Gmail's Smart Compose.
Outlook now provides users with text suggestions while the user composes the email using new technology. A Microsoft support document reveals that Outlook users can a... Read more
In new spam mails is threatened with bombs
A remarkable new spam campaign has been launched, aimed at countries in the western world. The hackers threaten to detonate a bomb, unless the recipient of the mail makes a payment in bitcoin. Bombs have so far not been found in the locations where they would be located.
The message of the mails is ... Read more
Microsoft comes back to idea of mail tips to all business Office 365 users
Microsoft wanted to send standard tips via e-mail to business users of Office 365. But the company's coming back to that now. There were too many people who objected to the plans and turned out not to be happy at all with e-mails from Microsoft.
Just a week ago, Microsoft informed system administrat... Read more