You can have the smartest analysts and the greatest strategy—but if your proxies fail on you, your entire research project can silently fall apart. Missing data, blocked requests, and timelines that inexplicably keep expanding is just the start. The bigger problem? These failures manifest themselves as incomplete insights, vague recommendations, or that unsettling sense that…
The internet is essentially one massive advertising billboard, and the fact that online advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry makes the entire system a fertile ground for fraud. Advertising and click fraud aren’t new issues; however, they still cost advertisers and publishers billions of dollars every year, slowly eroding marketing budgets and diminishing the trust customers…
In an age where email scams seem to pop up everywhere, finding effective ways to protect your inbox is a growing concern for many. Ever received an email that looked fishy, leaving you wondering if it was a scam or just a mistake? That’s where DMARC Quarantine Policy steps in! This policy acts like a…
There are various rules around DMARC, most of which are defined by DMARC RFC 7489, but there’s one that is not imposed by the protocol. It’s the 32KB report size limit. This limit is enforced not by DMARC itself but by mail providers, due to certain operational constraints. Major email service providers (ESPs) like Gmail…
In the digital landscape we navigate daily, understanding the intricacies of how information gets from one point to another can feel a bit like trying to unravel a tangled ball of yarn. One critical piece of this puzzle is the DNS PTR (Pointer) record, which might sound technical but plays a vital role in making…
Is time passing really quickly since 2020, or are the cyberattackers getting super swift with every move of theirs? Every week, we bring you a fresh dose of cyber bulletin, comprising global cybersecurity news. Every edition encourages you to learn more about prevalent cyber threats and secure yourself from potential cyberattacks. This is the 4th…
In a time when our online lives are more exposed than ever, protecting our digital information is crucial. You might not realize it, but every website you visit is tied to a complex system designed to translate human-friendly web addresses into machine-ready IP addresses. This system, known as the Domain Name System (DNS), can be…
Back in 2012, when DMARC was first published, it emerged as a revolutionary solution to email-based attacks, which the email infrastructure natively couldn’t block. However, cyberattacks have evolved since then; they have become more sophisticated and complex to detect. So far, DMARC has been doing a good job of protecting domains against direct spoofing attacks…
