This is your #AxisOfEasy Weekly Briefing for the week of May 1, 2017, wherein Mark sends out a short briefing on the state of the ‘net and how it affects whatever your business, security and privacy. Comments always appreciated, just hit “reply” or leave a comment below. In this issue: DoublePulsar: The Leaked NSA Exploit Kit Spreading in the wild Uber employs private […]
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[RFO] Reason For Outage May 1, 2017
Yesterday we experienced an outage affecting the main easyDNS website, the control panel, easyMail and mail forwarding. The cause was a corrupted database in our core DB cluster. As expedient as it might be to blame the root cause on Russian state-sponsored hackers, the reality is that it was caused by operator error. A sysadmin was […]
Is Google stealing your content?
In this issue: Is Google stealing your content? New legislation proposes $20/tax per device for uncensored internet viewing. Cybercriminals use DNS hack to takeover Brazilian bank Is Google stealing your content? For some time now you’ve probably noticed when you type a simplistic question into Google, like “What is the 5th planet from the sun?”, “Who was […]
Unscheduled server maintenance on easyWEB (cpanel5)
We have had a hardware event which has caused one of our easyWEB systems (cpanel5.easyweb.com) to be taken offline temporarily. We are working to get this sorted as soon as possible. This particular system is on our older easyWEB infrastructure and is slated to be replaced by one of our new systems on our easyWEB […]
easyDNS to issue $1 Billion in Negative Yielding "easyBonds"
/Newswire – Toronto / In a move described as the next logical step in business financing, easyDNS Technologies announced today the issuance of $1,000,000,000 CAD in negative yielding debt (“easyBonds”). The issuance will carry a short-term maturity of 30 days and yield negative 50 basis points (or -0.5%). The move will net the Toronto based […]
Our efforts to acquire Zerigo have fallen through….
For some time I suspected that DNS provider Zerigo was no longer a priority for their parent company after they were acquired by VOIP provider (and easyDNS client) 8×8 back in 2011. This sort of thing happens all the time, company gets acquired, parent switches direction, some of the acquisitions get left out in the […]
