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Report: Iranian Use of Conduit for Internet and the Iranian Revolution
After the Islamic Republic’s Internet blackout, Iran’s daily connections grew several orders of magnitude larger than others’ on January 21, 2021, peaking close to 30,000,000 on February 9th, but have now dropped significantly to around 5,000,000+.
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Microsoft Email Hack of Execs and Cybersecurity
A recent Form 8-K SEC filing by Microsoft states that some of their senior leadership and cybersecurity emails were compromised by a Russian hacker group as of November 2023.
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Email Security and Deliverability: SPF
One of the many facets of secure, healthy email is to show your recipients that your email comes from a legitimate place. Email spoofing is a tactic someone uses to appear like someone else when they send an email. It is a very common tactic and is very simple for an attacker to automate and