We are excited to announce a long anticipated feature to our outbound SMTP reports.
This upgrade allows you to visually track in real time your daily and monthly SMTP usage. Previously we only displayed the past 24 hours, but now we are providing a rolling 30 days of history and will be expanding the functionality in the very near future.
For December 2016 our uptime for inbound spam filtering was 100%, Nettica Webmail 100% and our outbound SMTP was 99.99%. The outbound SMTP was a total of six minutes of interruption over five very small blips in the system.
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Hilton and I were talking and he mentioned to me that he got a great looking phishing email in his Yahoo account, so I decided to take a quick look at the format and believability of the message to see if it would fool the average user. I was VERY surprised at how well this message was formatted and you’ll see that during my review a second less. (more…)
Today Google announced Google for Work has a new name.
Calendar, Drive, Docs, Gmail, Maps for Work, Search for Work, Sheets and Slides all fall under “G Suite“. It all now falls under Google Cloud (that powering everything), as which will encompass Chromebooks too.
The reason for the change is a step in the direction towards catering for its enterprise customers. The goal for Google is to that G Suite will continue to grow, with built-in collaboration being of the utmost importance.
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On July 1 we experienced DNS failure of our top level mailhop.org domain which impacted customers to a varying degree before ICANN resolved the problem. Part of our mission statement is to minimize all single points of failure for your email service. As a response to this problem we have created three new DNS zones that you should immediately add to your DNS record.
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We are officially releasing one of our most requested feature enhancements today – SMTP Quota Notifications. Our outbound smtp service is usage based and each sent message deducts a credit from the account. Previously the only way to know how many credits your account has remaining is to login to the portal and manually check your remaining credits.
We have a few clients complaining about spam that appears to be coming from their own domain.
We have investigated the issue with multiple customers and we have discovered the three most common reasons why these junk messages that appear to be from their own domain are getting delivered to your mail servers.
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Backend logistics like payment options, renewal rates, bitcoin, wire transfer may not necessarily be huge advancements in our spam filtering technology, but they are responses to customer feedback.
We now offer a monthly payment option for Spam Filtering, Email Quarantine and Backup MX. You’ll get a massive discount when you order annual service, but if you need monthly billing that option is available right now.
Systems Affected
All Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products
Overview
Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Some of these products are in widespread use throughout government and industry. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system.
We have been working with this one client for about 4 months on an OpenSSL issue. Today we received this awesome update on his system upgrades that I wanted to share with you. A system administrators job is never done, and what seems like a very straightforward task has twists and turns, dependencies and unintended discoveries.
To all the SysAdmins out there who keep software up to date and systems safe – thank you!
We are happy to announce that the Smart Quarantine services a feature that was previously only available on accounts with more than 150 email addresses is now available for all of our Email Gateway and Email Forwarding clients.
Smart quarantine all but eliminates false positives for messages misclassified as spam.
A new cluster of outbound SMTP servers have just been activated in the Frankfurt data center. This increases our capacity and our redundancy and will improve delivery and performance of outbound messages.
In April 2016 our uptime was 100% as measured by Pingdom.com
We did have 21 separate system outages with had zero service impact. The network is architected to be self healing and redundant so a single failure or even a failure of one data center will not impact customers.
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Google is constantly trying to fight both incoming and outgoing spam. Incoming spam is easy to combat because you can build tools and software at the gateway to manage and mitigate these vectors, however until now Google has allowed people to send email with an @gmail.com email address from any ISP’s server.
No matter how big or small your business is, the cloud can be a great resource for maximizing your company’s potential. However, alongside advantages such as speed and cross-platform compatibility, cloud computing also entails a number of drawbacks. Before committing your business to adopting the cloud, here are 5 pitfalls that you may need to navigate.
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A recent study by Microsoft reveals that more than 75% of customers anticipate using the cloud extensively in the next few years. Savvy business owners can capitalize on this trend by adopting cloud technology into both their services and infrastructure. To help you decide if incorporating this technology is the right decision for your business, read our list of the top 9 cloud benefits:
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If you believe your company is handling email security without any problems, the odds are you’re sadly mistaken. A recent Mimecast survey of IT security professionals found that 65% of them felt that their organization wasn’t capable of handling email-based cyber-attacks. A full third of them felt that their email was actually less secure than it was five years ago. (more…)
The security engineers at Yahoo have just released a study measuring the SMTP STARTTLS Deployment Quality of the modern mail ecosystem. They have concluded that the use of STARTTLS is common and widespread but that growth has faltered in recent years.
At DuoCircle we support STARTTLS on ALL of our inbound and outgoing servers. On all load balancers and on each individual server.
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Here at DuoCircle, we pride ourselves on staying a step ahead of the competition to make sure that your Inbox is always safe, secure and private. One of the most important ways we can help keep you safe is by keeping you informed about the industry, specifically when it comes to email privacy and security. Given how much coverage these topics are currently being given, we thought it was the perfect time to help make sure you understand what the fuss is about, how our industry’s leaders are reacting, and what we’re doing here at DuoCircle to secure your sensitive information.
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Last week we announced the roll out of the brand new message logging portal which allows the Administrative user the ability to view all message logs for their associated domain. This week we have enhanced the portal to include message statistics for all outbound SMTP traffic and inbound delivery for your domains. This is a major step forward and allows you to have complete visibility into your message delivery. If you have multiple domains and services, you’ll be able to access all of this information in one unified location. (more…)