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 […]
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RFO (Reason For Outage) October 30/15 Service Outage
At approximately 11:50 am ET the primary link to our Markham datacenter failed. Our datacenter facility has a backup link with another provider, however our BGP advertisements were not accepted via the new data route. Services impacted included: easyMail, easyWEB, easy.Press and outbound mail. The main easyDNS platform was available but impacted due to degraded […]
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”:
Phone support back up
The issue we were having with out phone support has now been resolved and we are available as normal again.
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”:
