This is a high-risk security, affecting to Chrome and Firefox users. We suggest everyone applies the fix now. If you are not familiar with phishing attack term, here is a short scenario. You receive an email saying that your account with them has been expired, or has some errors which require you to login for … Read more
Sucuri is a security company, focusing on protecting open source websites. OsloNAP has been utilizing Sucuri’s database for our malware daily checking. Every quarter, Sucuri releases a report about hacked situations, based on the sites they worked on. In the Sucuri hacked report Q2/2016, in over 9000 sites, the major is still WordPress. This confirms … Read more
Seasonal malicious emails. This time, every year is the high time for spam. There are many good promotions for Christmas and New Year events. Also, there are many malicious emails delivered into inboxes. Unfortunately, not all people know about this problem. That means they can click on the included links, open attached files, and be … Read more
Working with entrepreneurs gives me many lessons. A lot of questions have been raised. That makes me think about a fundamental course for entrepreneurs about the services for websites of their business, related to their online brands. There is some basic information about those services that entrepreneurs should know. It would help them to choose … Read more
I had a quick chat yesterday with a new friend, who has been running a web design company for more than ten years. Email is very important to him and his customers. At first, he had many troubles with spam. Then he moved to Google platform, and he is happy now. Google acquired Postini in 2007 … Read more
In a survey conducted in February 2012 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about 60% of US email users ages 18 to 64 said they had used email the day before. Daily email use is even higher among mobile phone users. Email technology provider Return Path found 88% of mobile phone users checked … Read more
We have just got a new client coming on board, utilizing our hosted antispam clusters. When I started talking with them, they faced to big trouble with their email system. Lot of spam was coming in, with virus of course. That made their staff annoyed and could not focus on daily work. The manager tried to … Read more
Yahoo changed their DMARC policy They have added “p=reject” DMARC record into yahoo.com domain. Basically, all messages sending from an email with yahoo.com, but not from Yahoo’s servers, will be bounced. While this policy can help Yahoo reducing amount of phishing emails from yahoo.com domain, it might bring trouble to website owners when they are … Read more