Tech giants partner to make e-mails more secure
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Comcast have partnered to propose a new e-mail mechanism, called SMTP Strict Transport Security (SMTP STS), that ensures encrypted e-mails. It checks if the domain a user is sending to supports SMTP STS and makes sure its encryption certificate is authentic and up-to-date. The current e-mail encryption system is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. 