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 […]
Spearphishing attack targeting multiple registrars – "From Abuse Desk"
There are multiple reports today across multiple registrars that customers are being targeted in another spearphish purporting to come from the Registrar’s “Abuse Department”:
Phishing emails directed to easyDNS members
Be on the lookout for a phishing email a la: From: “Easy DNS” <iem@easydns.com> Reply-To: mark***@easydns.com Subject: , Your account was hacked! Hey, Your account was hacked. To change your password, please click here. The link goes to hxxp://pasilpowers.com/r/easydns/EMAIL, where EMAIL is the email address the message was delivered to. (Update) How it happened Some […]
Most ridiculous legal request ever?
Imagine explaining to a customer that they have to drop products from their online store or even that you took their domain down because you received the following “FDA” request from (quite literally) “some guy on the internet”:
