We all know this scenario. We’re buying something in a store or browsing a company’s website, and at some point we are asked for our email address. Sometimes we recite it instinctively, or maybe we ...

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In late December 2019, a staff member with the North Carolina Republican Party downloaded an email list with the contact information of more than 65,000 conservatives from across the state. The ...

Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessible database belonging to an email validation firm that contained a nearly 800 million email addresses along with other data. The discovery was ...

An exposed database belonging to Shanghai Jiao Tong University exposed 8.4TB in email metadata after failing to implement basic authentication demands. The exposed server was discovered on May 22, ...

Most B2B marketers recognise that email marketing is one of the most effective ways of reaching potential new customers – even cold prospects – and winning new business. It’s low-cost, quick to ...

Last week, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing 150 gigabytes of detailed, plaintext marketing data—including ...

Email is the backbone of B2B marketing. And when your emails don't reach your target audience, your sales are lower than they should be! In this free webinar, discover the hidden threats of email ...

Another week, another multi-million member list of pwned email addresses exposed on the Internet. This time it's the database of names used by a malware-spreading spambot based in the Netherlands and ...

Pennsylvania officials have removed a searchable, online database of state employee emails, narrowing the ways the public can reach the people who work for commonwealth agencies. The state Office of ...