This is my belated obligatory post about the entire “Apple vs the FBI” episode and whether it should help decrypt the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. People have commented that I should write something, and I’ve been reluctant in case I go off in full-rant-mode. I wrote the entire post and then after I re-read it […]
Maybe Yahoo should buy Godaddy
…was one of the random, possibly nutso thoughts I had on the drive in this morning whilst listening to the financial news. Yahoo is one of the rare companies actually trading up so far today on the “news” that it’s forming a committee of independent board members to examine strategy. Nobody’s said it, but in my mind […]
You may only be as secure as your weakest vendor
The scale and immensity of hacking incidents worldwide is on the upswing. It seems everybody is getting hacked at one point or another. Even easyDNS had a low level data breach a few months ago (email addresses were exfiltrated from a server housing a third-party marketing CMS). Some incidents are worse than others, and the severity […]
Never let your services slip into expiry again
We’ve had a lot of customers wishing they could set up their easyDNS account similar to other IT vendors: where they could store their billing info and have their domains and other services automagically renew or rebill as required or whenever new services are added. That time has now arrived. You will never have to […]
Don't get too clever…
Haven’t posted in this section for awhile (which has been renamed Using URLs Effectively). In today’s lesson we see an attempt at a “call-to-action” URL on a vehicle:
Yahoo testing blocking your email access if you use ad-blockers
Last week the news broke that Yahoo had begun testing a new initiative where users with ad-blocking enabled would be denied access to their email. I’ve been in this business a long time, we’ve been through countless DDoS attacks, and a lot of “red-alert” situations. From those experiences I can tell you that users are […]
