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Buggy Microsoft Outlook Sending Encrypted S/MIME Emails With Plaintext Copy For Months

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read1
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CVE-2017-11776
Microsoft Outlook 2016 allows an attacker to obtain the email content of a user, due to how Outlook 2016 discloses user email content, aka "Microsoft Outlook…
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Beware, If you are using S/MIME protocol over Microsoft Outlook to encrypt your email communication, you need to watch out. From at least last 6 months, your messages were being sent in both encrypted and unencrypted forms, exposing all your secret and sensitive communications to potential eavesdroppers.

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