An email address must have three elements -- an account name, a commercial "at" sign and a domain name. The distinction between a Web address and an email address can be difficult to spot. However, ...

Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology ...

With these free online tools, you can immediately check whether your email address has been leaked on the internet and is associated with stolen data. One of the two tools, haveibeenpwned, has just ...

What we’re apparently calling “celebgate” has probably caused you to worry that your own data in the cloud isn’t secure. It certainly has me worried, but I do have one small trick that helps reduce ...

One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. Adding a “+” character after the username portion of your email address — ...