Apple's "Hide My Email" feature lets you create fake email addresses that keep your real email private, but still forward you ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

Over the past three years, I’ve changed email providers three times without ever changing email addresses. That’s because my address is entirely under my control. Instead of relying on an email that ...

Despite the best efforts of the spam blockers in my email inboxes, I still get dozens of spam emails every day that I then have to wade through to get to my real emails. The irony is, the more I use ...

Another spam tsunami hit my inbox, so I went sleuthing. Here's how I traced the breach—and you can too. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Email is a staple of modern life, but it's also generally awful. If you're like most people, your inbox is a hellscape mix of ...

Republished on December 25 with the implications of responses to a new U.S. government warning and advice on staying safe on Gmail and changing your email address in 2025. Your inbox is under attack.

Even seasoned cybersecurity reporters can get duped by a well-crafted scam email. Here's how I unraveled this one, step by ...