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Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Last week we started receiving reports from customers that Microsoft is rejecting all EMail from our servers. We are aware of the issue and, while we regularly monitor spam...
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Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
UPDATE 2020-11-17
Both Aliant and CloudMark have continued to ignore our repeated requests to provide any valid reason for why they blocked all mail from our server for almost...
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SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
Google announced some time ago that their Chrome web browser would begin showing a \"Not Secure\" notice in the address bar, when viewing any site that doesn't use an encrypted,...
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GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
For more than six months now, since Novembe 2019, GMail has repeatedly been blocking legitimate EMails from us, and consistently ignoring all of our requests that they fix the...
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Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
In the past, we've written about a previous incident where we noticed malicious files that were being hosted on Google drive, and distributed via links in spam EMails...
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Wrong Website and/or Company
If you've been sent to this page, it's because you sent us a message intended for a different company - most likely Smarty Plus or Smarty Pants Vitamins.
We have NO...
Continue ReadingSome of the spammers we're tracking and why
We've been annoyed by spammers nearly as long as we've been online - and that's more than 20 years. We've been managing our own mail servers since 1994 and have watched with dismay as...
Continue ReadingGeeknet.ca spam for Tristar Mercedes via Rackspase.com - Geeknet.ca contact page broken
Mark Stevens @ Geeknet.ca obviously doesn't like receiving spam like the collect call spam he's been sending to my cellphone...which might be why there's no company email address on...
Continue ReadingMercedes cellphone spam from Geeknet.ca / Rackspace.com
Despite the high cost of mobile data communications in Canada, some of us get email to our cellphones.
On the one hand, it's convenient. On the other, we get to pay for...
Continue ReadingIf you lose your data, you could lose your business (Globe & Mail)
Small and medium-sized businesses are highly vulnerable to a range of cyberthreats, experts say. Backing up your data is vital, they tell GEORGE BUTTERS
Special to The Globe and...
Continue ReadingAliant - Insecure security? (part 2)
"It is an unsettling message," says Aliant spokesperson Joe Mosher. But he also says that the company's online credit card payment system is "no less secure" as a result.
The problem...
Continue ReadingInternet and Copyright - a sample IP address search (Session 4)
If you thought we've thoroughly covered techie Internet search techniques, let me set you straight: we have hardly scratched the surface.
In this session, we're going to take a look...
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Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
Wrong Website and/or Company
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