As many of you have heard by now, social networking site LinkedIn had a security breach […]
Well, it was bound to happen. As Olympics frenzy ramps-up, so do spammers. Olympic-mania has inspired a fresh crop of spam scams, aimed at parting unsuspecting email recipients with their money. The London 2012 games website has warned against a couple of different scams, including offers of fake tickets to the games and spam emails encouraging recipients to give personal information in exchange for the release of prize winnings.
Grum is the third-largest botnet in the world, sending out about 18 billion spam emails per day. Grum was brought to its virtual knees this week when security researchers put enough pressure on Internet service providers (ISPs) to take Grum’s servers in the Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine and Panama offline. This shutdown created a massive decrease in the number of Grum IP addresses sending spam, from 120,000 IP addresses, to a little over 21,500.
Back when it was first discovered that spammers were scraping WHOIS registrations for email addresses, private registration of domains became popular among legitimate businesses. Unfortunately, like so many other things, registering your domain privately (meaning that your domain registration information is essentially cloaked, and anonymous to the world) has been adopted and thus ruined by the spammers, phishers, and malware pushers of the world. Now, if you are a legitimate sender, having a privately registered domain will hurt your email deliverability.
Recently we were asked a question regarding what a dictionary attack was. A “dictionary attack” is […]
Relying on images in email marketing can hurt you for a few reasons: 1) It can increase the likelihood that your email will be marked as spam, and, 2) because so many services such as Gmail, and email programs such as Outlook, automatically block images, it can be detrimental to the effectiveness of your email if much of the impact of it was visual. Even when email applications don’t block images by default, many users are being advised to disallow images in incoming emails.
There are certain buzzwords that could be a ding against your email when it comes to […]
It's unusual that we post something requesting informtion from our readers, but we need your help. ISIPP SuretyMail is studying how closely what email marketers think about how those on their mailing lists view email marketing messages matches up with what these end users actually think.
We are pleased to offer our newest resource page, "How to Find Your Full Email Headers in AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Mozilla, Apple Mail and More!"
This resource features a full explanation of what an email header is, and why it may be being asked for, along with full instructions for finding email headers in Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, Excite, Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla, and Apple Mail, with more to come!
We were sad to hear of yesterday's announcement of the closing of Goodmail. Goodmail had a good run, and a novel business model. We wish everybody there well. We also would like to extend a special offer to all of the Goodmail customers who will now be needing an alternative to their Goodmail email deliverability service.