Hushmail is featured on the Huffington Post today in Keith Thomson’s article Christmas Eavesdropping: Affordable Spy Gizmos for Your Friends and Enemies.

To 21st century crooks trying to capture your financial information, emails are often less secure than 20th century postcards. Since 1999, spies have been using Hushmail, which encrypts emails.

See all of Keith’s Christmas spy gizmos or skip ahead to the Hushmail mention.

We’re pleased to announce that, as of today, we will no longer put ads at the bottom of emails sent from free Hushmail accounts. If you do not already have a Hushmail account, you can sign up here.

Anything else you would like to see changed in Hushmail? Please, feel free to send us your suggestions.

On July 7, 2009, we’ll be adding two new features to Hushmail Business webmail:

• HTML email display
• Option to sign in without using the Java applet (learn more)

If would like your Hushmail Business domain to be excluded from this upgrade, please let us know by July 6, 2009.

We’ve partnered with E-nigmatech, an Israeli technology company, to offer Hushmail in two additional languages: Russian and Hebrew.

If you would like to use Hushmail in Russian or Hebrew, please sign up for an account on the E-nigmatech website.

To sign up for an English language Hushmail account, please continue to use the Hushmail.com website.

In “Hushmail and Other Ways to Protect E-mail“, David Strom reviews Hushmail Business, PGP Universal Gateway Email, and Voltage SecureMail Connected Gateway as three low-cost, easy-to-use business-friendly email encryption packages. From the article:

You probably know by now that any e-mail that isn’t encrypted traverses the Internet in clear text that can easily be viewed with little skill and just some patience. So what are you doing to protect your company’s sensitive e-mail?

The right way is to encrypt e-mail messages in their entire path from sender to receiver. You also need to digitally sign them, to ensure that no one else has tampered with them in transit.

Hush Communications has been around a long time in the encryption world. Its basic business account, which is the least expensive of the three solutions reviewed here, starts at $24 a year per user. (There is also a free personal version that has most of the features found in the business product, with the exception of having your own domain names to send and receive the encrypted e-mails.)

My recommendation is to start off with either the free Hushmail product or the Business version and see if hosted e-mail is right for your needs.

Read the full review in BusinessWeek, or learn more about Hushmail Business. If you have any questions about Hushmail Business, feel free to give us a call or email our sales team.