I’ve been accepted as a speaker for the Email Innovations Summit in Las Vegas in May. This is a conference hosted by the folks behind the Only Influencers group and should be a great way to meet some of the leading minds in email marketing. I’ll be speaking on some of the things I see changing in the email space and how that will affect email marketing as a whole. I think it will be...
A number of hosting providers are blocking outgoing port25. This has implications for a lot of smaller senders who either want to run their own mail server or who use SMTP to send mail to their ESP. What is port25 Port25 is the designated email sending channel. Much like websites are on port80 (or 8080) and DNS is on port53, email is sent over port25. Mostly. Why block Port25 Port25 blocking is a...
A big part of my predictions for 2016, that I’ll publish shortly, is that security is going to be a huge issue. I think we’re really going to see receivers expecting senders to have their houses in order when it comes to sending mail. Of course, some filter companies need to get their houses in order to. Yesterday, a security researcher went public with problems in the TrendMicro anti...
Late last week Spamhaus published a blog post detailing their investigation into Verizon routing millions of IP addresses hijacked by spammers. The Spamhaus blog post goes into some detail about what hijacked routing is. For cybercriminals to make use of their stolen blocks however, a crucial step is to find an Internet Service Provider(ISP) or network with the ability to route these IP addresses...
There’s a fairly common Facebook scam where someone clones an account, then sends out friend requests to friends of that person. This actually happened to a friend over the holiday break. The only problem was that most of the folks who got friend requests were actually security people. Security people who thought it was very, very funny to play along with said scammer. The scam account...
On IRC today, someone mentioned an Ars Technica article discussing how a research team tried to contact Xfinity about a security flaw in their home security system. We attempted to contact anyone responsible for the security of Xfinity home security devices at the following addresses: security@xfinity.com; secure@xfinity.com; support@xfinity.com; info@xfinity.com; abuse@xfinity.com, but we did...
Happy 2016! We enjoyed a bit of a break over the holidays and hope you did too. Here’s our December wrap up – look for a year-end post later this week, as well as our predictions for the year ahead. I got a bit of a head start on those predictions in my post at the beginning of December on email security and other important issues that I think will dominate the email landscape in 2016...
Blogging will be light (or non-existent) for the next week or so. I leave you with Valeria and her first Christmas tree from many years ago.
The kittens are older now, we can have a tree complete with lights AND ornaments.
See y’all in the new year!
A couple new bits of information for folks interested in participating in feedback loops. If you’re an ESP, you’ll want to sign up for the two new FBLs that were released this month. XS4ALL and Telenor are now offering complaint feeds to senders. If you’re a mail recipient and want the ability to report spam, try the new browser/MUA plugins for reporting spam released by the...
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