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ProtonMail logged, shared activist’s IP address with Swiss police

ProtonMail is being criticized for sharing French activist’s IP address with Swiss authorities while claiming it does not save logs. End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail is currently facing criticism after the company shared the IP address of an anti-gentrification activist with law enforcement agencies that led to their arrests in France. Reportedly, the company […]

ProtonMail denies that it offers real-time surveillance assistance (Updated)

A Swiss lawyer has accused ProtonMail that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities. ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surveillance. The head of […]

UK Teen Finally Arrested for DDoS Attack on ProtonMail Behalf of Russian Hackers Group

National Crime Agency (NCA) from the UK finally arrested the Teen for a heavy DDoS attack on ProtonMail email service. 19-year-old Teen George Duke-Cohan who was roaming on the internet under the name ‘7R1D3N7′, ‘DoubleParalla’ and ‘optcz1′, was launched a heavy DDoS attack on ProtonMail. In this case, Protonmail faced a DDoS Attack on their network daily basis […]

Teen arrested for DDoS attack on ProtonMail & making fake bomb threats

ProtonMail, a Swiss-based end-to-end email encryption service, has announced the name of one of the attackers involved in the DDoS attack against the company earlier this year. Due to the attack, the email service of ProtonMail stopped responding for a minute several times despite having adequate mitigation measures in place. The identified hacker, a teenager […]

Best Encrypted Email Services for 2018

Looking for the best encrypted email services for 2018? Here are six encrypted email platforms providing utmost security and privacy orientated services. The year 2017 is gone but the hunt for the most trustworthy and best encrypted email services in 2018 is still on. It is true that email services like Gmail, Hotmail (Outlook) or Yahoo […]

ProtonMail Launches Free ProtonVPN to Fight Online Censorship

On the 20th of June 2017, the Swiss-based security company, Proton Technologies AG, released its final version of ProtonVPN, open for public use and free to access. Proton Technologies AG has also been the pioneer in developing an encrypted email service called Proton Mail. The development The development of the VPN service took around one […]

Email Encryption Service Provider ‘ProtonMail’ Now on Tor

ProtonMail, launched in 2014 by a group of MIT and CERN experts, is the largest email encryption service provider in the world having more than two million users. It is the preferred emailing platform of activists and journalists who need to keep information confidential. In its latest announcement, ProtonMail’s co-founder Dr. Andy Yen stated that […]

Encrypted email service ProtonMail opens door for Tor users

The encrypted dark web site aims to help users circumvent government censorship. ProtonMail now has a home on the dark web.The encrypted email provider announced Thursday it will allow its users to access the site through the Tor anonymity service. The aim is to allow its more than 2 million users access the provider by […]

ProtonMail Goes Public – Enjoy Encrypted Emails and Pay in Bitcoin

ProtonMail claims its NSA-proof and provides 100% encrypted email service to its users Those in need of encrypted email service have reason to cheer up and relax since the world’s largest encrypted email provider ProtonMail is now offering open registrations. The email service provider firm is reportedly leaving beta and launching its iOS and Android mobile […]

ProtonMail, the Easy-to-Use Encrypted Email Service, Opens Up to the Public

Three years after the Snowden revelations, the proliferation of privacy-focused messaging apps, email clients, and other encryption services hasn’t yet managed to make the use of crypto less of a pain. Today, one service that aims to change that left its beta stage. Switzerland-based ProtonMail wants to make encrypted emails easier to send, and after […]

NSA-proof ProtonMail Service DDoSed, Forced to Pay $6000 as Ransom

In 2014, a team of privacy advocates launched ProtonMail and claimed that it’s an NSA-proof email service. The service was such a massive hit that the developers came up with its Android and iOS apps. But something went wrong this week with ProtonMail when it got under powerful DDoS attacks by unknown cyber criminals and forced to […]

NSA proof Email Service ProtonMail launching Mobile App

Previously we told you about ProtonMail, an email service said to be totally surveillance proof. The developers of this service are going to release a mobile app soon and this follows a very successful Indiegogo campaign which is known to raise around 6 times of the initial goal of $100,000. This is an extremely successful […]