A ban on cash, the post office can open your letters, and warrantless data taps, oh my! The recently re-elected Liberal government has tabled Bill C-2, “The Strong Borders Act”, ostensibly to tighten up border security after the Trump Tariff Tantrums that threw a monkey-wrench into Canada’s political landscape and economy. But nestled within this […]
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Increase In Phish Emails Pretending To Be easyDNS
We have received questions from our clients regarding notices that they have received that pretend to be from us (until you see the From: address). They use our logo and seem to use generic TO: addresses (like info@, contact@, contactus@….), either guessed or scraped from the website they send to. We are exploring what we […]
Les nouvelles politiques de messagerie électronique de Gmail, Yahoo, et autres nécessiteront des domaines activés pour DMARC
Mise à jour : 20 janv. 2024 : La date limite du 1er février ne concerne que les domaines expéditeurs qui envoient plus de 5 000 messages par jour vers Google. À partir du 1er février, Gmail et Yahoo commenceront à appliquer l’exigence de Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (“DMARC”). DMARC est un protocole […]
New email policies at Gmail, Yahoo et al will require DMARC enabled domains
As of February 1st, Gmail and Yahoo will start enforcing a requirement for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (“DMARC“). DMARC is an IETF protocol as specified in RFC7489. It will initially affect large senders, defined as domains originating more than 5K emails per day into the Gmail system (this is the shape of things […]
Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone, so are you. At least […]
Canada’s BTLR is a Blueprint for Regulating Internet Content
(Feb 9, 2020 This post has had correction appended) In June 2018 the Canadian federal government initiated a review of the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Acts with the intent of getting guidance on how best to integrate the realities of the internet and global communications into the existing legislation. The project overview page with associated timeline […]
