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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 ReadingGoogle Plays "Hide the Free Version" with Apps for Domains
A few years back, Google introduced a free service called "GMail for Domains" - in a nutshell, it allowed domain name owners to use the GMail service for their domain's EMail...
Continue ReadingDiana Adams - Poet, Writer, Troublemaker and now CIBC Password Phisher?
Want to hand over your CIBC online banking details to identity thieves? You can do it by visiting dianaadams.ca and filling in the online form.
It's not on the home page - you'll...
Continue ReadingAnatomy of a Website Compromise
Recently I had the "pleasure" of cleaning up one of the websites we host, and encountered one of the sneakiest website compromises ("hacks") I've seen so far. I've decided to document...
Continue ReadingOpenTable Open For Spamming
OpenTable - an online restaurant reservation system - is wide open for spamming.
This discovery comes after a flood of mobile phone spam to one of my email addresses - the kind that...
Continue ReadingPhotobox Spam - Welcome to the dark side
Photobox is a digital photo company based in the UK that just teamed up with a digital greeting card company. Coincidentally, what had been a single 'Welcome to Photobox' spam which I...
Continue ReadingBill Kunkel - the Game Doctor - Dead at 61
It's been a strange weekend. What seemed a toothache turned out to be a mouth pimple.
What seemed like a missed voicemail message turned out to be a big hole in my heart.
We were...
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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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