Tag: DNS
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: WordPress plugin critical vulnerabilities
Two critical security flaws have been identified in a WordPress plugin—Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. This plugin is installed on more than 200,000 websites. Review this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn how to mitigate your risks from these vulnerabilities. What is...
Staying cyber safe with CISA this summer
As sure as fireflies and fireworks mean summer, so do Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warnings and alerts. With parents shuttling kids to day camps, pool parties, and Disney World, summer is a prime time for cybercriminals to make...
How to help your clients comply with new Google and Yahoo email requirements
When it comes to email security, most of the focus is on what happens when a malicious email is received. Optimally, a multi-layered approach will help filter out phishing emails and other attacks via technology and user training. But some...
Tech Time Warp: How human error leads to July 1997 email outage
This week’s Tech Time Warp looks at how, in a world that’s so utterly reliant on the internet, service outages are hardly uncommon anymore, whether they’re the result of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, like that which caused Microsoft...
Tech Time Warp: Mockapetris invents the domain name system
It’s easy to tell your friends that your favorite blog is SmarterMSP.com. It would be harder to suggest that they visit 104.196.23.244. You can thank Paul Mockapetris for the ease with which you can recommend websites. In January 1985, Mockapetris...
