Hushmail, Fast Mail And Other Email Providers Extorted

Different e-mail providers, including Hushmail and Fast Mail, have become the target of extortionists that heavy DDoS attacks against the email services. So users could not some time in their email. Earlier it was announced that ProtonMail was extorted.

This e-mail provider decided the amount that the extortionists were demanding to be paid, but the attacks continued, however.Also Fastmail was threatened by extortionists, but this e-mail service refused to pay, according to the company in a blog posting know. The attacks that followed meant that users could not log on for several days, according to the status page.Meanwhile, the service is accessible again and would since November 9, no new attacks have been more to endure.

Another provider that faced the extortionists is Hushmail, which offers like ProtonMail encrypted e-mail service. Hushmail also refused to pay and was from November 5 with DDoS attacks harassed, allowing customers several days at their e-mail could. Yesterday was another DDoS attack rather than allowing Hushmail was unreachable for some time, let the status page to see.

E-mail provider Runbox also got to do with the attack, which lasted several days. Again, the extortionists demanded money again and it was decided not to pay. Last Saturday stopped the attacks, the attackers even made ​​their apologies, as the company said on the website. At the same time it was also e-mail provider VFEmail under fire. The company refused to pay, but the owner it was considering to stop the mail service, so he lets on Facebook know. VFEmail however is still active and is a temporary solution, a new IP address implemented anti-DDoS proxy to stop the attacks.

American Silent Circle 100% Owner Of Black Phone

The US security Silent Circle has become the 100% owner of the Black Phone, the privacy-oriented smartphone. Last year launched the Black SGP Technologies Phone, a joint venture between Silent Circle and the Spanish phone manufacturer Geeks Phone. Silent Circle Geeks Phone has now bought out and has thus become the full owner of SGP Technologies and the Black Phone. KPN will offer the device as well later this year in the Netherlands.

In addition, the US company $ 50 million collected to enhance the deployment of the Black Phone and grow. "As the nature and volume of data increases the number of incidents, it takes institutional trust," saith Silent Circle CEO William Conner."There are companies that have been hacked and there are companies that do not know it, which means that security has failed in the traditional sense."

According to Conner companies need another solution more and more employees to their own devices to log into the corporate network. "In summary, in a post-Sony and Gemalto world security incidents become both business and personal, and it is no longer a problem only to do with the board." During the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Silent Circle will launch the first commercial, privacy-focused ecosystem. The company was in early 2012 by PGP creator Phil Zimmermann and two former Navy Seals founded.

Silent Circle has last year Nevis headquarters, an island belonging to the Lesser Antilles, moved to Switzerland. Partly because of the "robust" privacy laws in Switzerland. The headquarters of Black Phone was housed in Switzerland. In 2013 Silent Circle decided because of the legal steps that the US government had taken against email provider lavabit to the plug to pull out their own encrypted email service.