Tutanota is under attack

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One of ours alternatives to Gmail, together with Switzerland ProtonMail, is the service offered by Tutanota. For those who don't already know it Tutanota is a German company that has existed since 2011. In addition to encrypted emails, it also offers a practical calendar ¹ and all its applications are Open source ². It is used by millions of people from all over the world ³ and offers a more than decent free service as well as an excellent paid service (very low prices). Now though Tutanota is under attack for a month ⁴.

What happens in Tutanota? Those who use it on a daily basis will have noticed that in the last month downs have frequently occurred due to attacks DDoS. DDoS is the acronym of Denial ORf Service.
An attack DDoS, without wanting to go into technical details, is a method used by third parties to make a service unusable. An attempt is made to overwhelm a service by sending thousands or even millions of connections at the same time ⁵. It is almost impossible to resist, although there are several tactics to minimize its effects. Just think that in February 2020 a gigantic DDoS attack occurred risked crippling Amazon Web Services ⁶. Not exactly the last idiots, in short.

Tutanota is under attack

As we were saying, for about a month Tutanota is under attack. Someone is attacking all the time, almost daily ⁷, their services. It all began on August 15th when a gigantic DDoS attack caught them by surprise so much so that all their services remained down for over 24 hours. Tutanota they therefore ran for cover, they are now able to contain the attacks and make them last on average a few minutes up to maximum peaks of an hour ⁷. As you can imagine the attacks DDoS they are also anonymous, so no one can know who is attacking and why.

Why Tutanota is under attack no one knows. A service like Tutanota However, for its services in favor of privacy, it must be protected and helped. So if you had any doubts this is a good time to try their encrypted webmail. For free but also for a fee €12 per year for the premium service. It is therefore time to make them feel our closeness because an attack on a service that protects the privacy of its users is also an attack on freedom.

Last notes to reassure new and any old members of Tutanota. They ensured that no email has been hacked as they are all encrypted. So no change of password or anything else is necessary. Furthermore, during the attacks the emails are all put in a queue and therefore no emails will be lost.

1. Encrypted calendar[↩]
2. Tutanota on GitHub[↩]
3. Secure email reviews for Tutanota – updated.[↩]
4. Continuous DDoS is an attack on our right to privacy.[↩]
5. Denial of service on Wikipedia [↩]
6. Amazon says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded[↩]
7. Incidents within the last seven days[↩][↩]

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