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 ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document, RFC 3696, “Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names” by John Klensin, gives several valid e-mail addresses that are rejected ...

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 ...

Yahoo is releasing inactive Yahoo IDs so that users can score a better email address. This means you can finally have albert@yahoo.com instead of albert9330399@yahoo.com, for example. Sounds great, ...

Ever wonder whether an email address someone gave you—say [email protected]—actually exists? Tech blogger Amit Agarwal explains how to verify an email address using both simple and decidedly geekier ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

Certain websites ask you for your email address for different activities. For entering a comment, for example, you have to provide your email ID. Likewise, when downloading some free e-books, they ask ...

One of the quickest ways to fill your email inbox with spam is to post your address on a Web page. Email harvesting programs crawl the Web relentlessly, searching for new addresses to add to spam ...

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 ...

Whether it’s a substantive danger or just repackaged data that’s nothing new, its presence should yet again raise awareness of the steps everyone should take to keep themselves safe online. And if you ...

When Gmail sees a "+" in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to [email protected]. If you search ...