It's 2024 and #Outlook has seen its worst email hack ever.

When will they start listening to their founder Bill Gates?

A lax security culture made attacking Outlook so easy for China - you won't believe it! Find out what made the hack possible via this thread:👇

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⚡ Watch out: #Microsoft joins #Google & #Facebook with its focus on ads first. ⚡

When creating a test account, #Outlook informed us of 813 data sharing partners! 🫢

Plus, the "new" Outlook app is quietly storing your data in the cloud, including your passwords.
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft

This is so f***** up!! O_O

Be aware when you receive HTML emails (who doesn't?)!

https://gruene.social/@weddige/112190338668045392

#HTML #HTMLmail #CSS
#Phishing #SCAM
#SocialEngineering
#Thunderbird #Outlook
#KoboldLetters

Konstantin Weddige (@weddige@gruene.social)

Attached: 1 image Welcome to another edition of "Is this phishing?" Assume the email is in principle plausible and the transaction ID exists. What is the worst that can happen if you press send? #phishing

^{gruene.social}

If you use Thunderbird as a client for Microsoft-owned accounts and have sign-in issues, especially recently, be sure to check our newly updated KB article on the topic. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentication-and-thunderbird-202

We'll be keeping a close eye on these issues, and thanks to everyone who has both let us know about their problems and jumped in to help others. 😊 💙

#Thunderbird #Outlook #OAuth2

📫GREAT Reason To Both Use / Support @thunderbird #Thunderbird

New Microsoft #Outlook Collects / Shares Your Data w/Over 772 Parties

#email #communication #FOSS #Microsoft #Thunderbird #Mozilla #encryption #crypto #e2ee #infosec #Proton #surveillance #cybersecurity #privacy #News

https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service

The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 772 external partners for targeted advertising.

^{Edward Komenda (Proton)}

If you're using #outlook, it's time to switch to @thunderbird

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service | Proton
https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service

The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 772 external partners for targeted advertising.

^{Edward Komenda (Proton)}

Resolved: Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam.

https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk/

This is just another example of how much power Microsoft has. But sometimes I'm not sure they really know what they're doing.

Anyway, dealing with Windows email users (businesses and individuals) can be a nightmare.

If you plan on using your own email server, sooner or later you'll be playing this game too.

#microsoft #outlook #hotmail #email #spam @Tutanota

⚡ For three weeks #Microsoft was sending all tutanota.com emails to spam in #Outlook.

You helped #spread the word so suddenly #Microsoft was able to fix this within one day! 💪

Thank you! 🙏
https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk

The new #Outlook is good... for 766 third parties that track you.

What do you do to stop trackers dead?

Plus, Outlook shares your emails, contacts and passwords with its US servers. So you better watch out! 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft

#microsoft #privacy #outlook

Do you trust #Microsoft? Because #Outlook has a real scare for you. 😱

Read more on this 🚩 breaking story! 👇

Emails, Contacts, and Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Overshares with Microsoft:
https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft

Wer nicht möchte, dass seine E-Mail-Zugangsdaten inklusive E-Mails an Microsoft abfließen, sollte ein alternatives E-Mail-Programm verwenden. Sofern "Neues Outlook" bereits im Einsatz ist, sollte das Konto gelöscht und anschließend die Zugangsdaten geändert werden. Eine mögliche Alternative: Thunderbird. 👇

https://www.thunderbird.net/de/

#microsoft #thunderbird #datenschutz #sicherheit #outlook

Thunderbird — Befreien Sie Ihren Posteingang.

Thunderbird ist eine freie E-Mail-Anwendung, die man einfach einrichten und anpassen kann — und sie ist voll mit tollen Funktionen!

^Thunderbird

So, nochmal frisch am Montagmorgen:

‼️ Vorsicht: Das neue #Outlook sendet Passwörter, Mails und andere Daten an Microsoft-Server.

Wir raten allen Privat- und Geschäftskunden dringend zu Alternativen wie Thunderbird oder unseren @mailbox_org Webmailer.

👉 Für Geschäftskunden kann die derartige (wenn auch ungewollte) Speicherung personenbezogener Daten übrigens ein bußgeldbelegter DSGVO-Verstoß darstellen.

Mehr im Blog:
https://mailbox.org/de/post/warnung-neues-outlook-sendet-passwoerter-mails-und-andere-daten-an-microsoft

Warnung: Neues Outlook sendet Passwörter, Mails und andere Daten an Microsoft | mailbox.org

Heise Online warnt vor der Nutzung des neuen kostenlosen Microsoft Outlook. Es droht der Verlust von Zugangsdaten zu E-Mail-Konten.

^mailbox.org

Shocking but not surprising: New #Microsoft #Outlook is phishing **your mail account credentials** without telling you, all it takes is try it out once. So, don't.
As always, better go with FOSS: @thunderbird

Usually phishing comes from shady people that need to jump through some hoops to try and get you. #Microsoft just thinks they can rob you in broad daylight.. crazy.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html

Microsoft krallt sich Zugangsdaten: Achtung vor dem neuen Outlook

Das neue kostenlose Outlook ersetzt Mail in Windows, später auch das klassische Outlook. Es schickt geheime Zugangsdaten an Microsoft.

^{Dirk Knop (heise online)}

Dnešního rána jsem se rozhodl skoncovat s Outlookem a přejít i na Macu na Thunderbird.

A to potom co mi Outlook udělal v mailech na 2 ze 4 schránek zřejmě nějakou jeho chybou IMAPu paseku viz. screenshot 🙈

@thunderbird #email #IMAP #Outlook #Thunderbird

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#Outlook #Thunderbird #Email #Privacy

The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your #Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your Gmail email, contacts, and calendar data.

The "Learn More" link confirms:

"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."

WOW.

Good time to switch to @thunderbird, folks!

#Privacy #Outlook #Email

Quick FYI 🏁 🏎️

Prior to #GoDaddy killing my #POP #Email client access on June 2 as part of #Microsoft's mandate to force users onto its #Exchange protocol, I switched from #Outlook 2016 to #Thunderbird 114 Beta (which still connects w/ #POP3 + #OAuth2 - unsure if it's a glitch, but it works)

Thunderbird 114 Beta Portable (it's the version I'm using)
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable/test

Since Thunderbird team is moving towards its new #Supernova #UI for Thunderbird 115, there's a mixture of old & new menus

At work, we recently migrated to MS 365 for part of our email management and I discovered a tiny useful piece of software that simplifies for me the OAUTH2 based idiosyncratic system of Outlook and its friends.

A proxy now allows me to still use mutt, fetchmail, msmtp and exim to read and write emails.

https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy

#oauth2 #outlook #proxy

GitHub - simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy: An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. - GitHub - simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy: An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that tra...

^GitHub

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