Guides on registration bomb attacks, ASN scoring, and keeping your inbox safe.
Last Tuesday, 500,000 emails hit one inbox in four hours. The victim's spam filter didn't catch a single one. Here's exactly how registration bomb attacks work, and why your current setup can't stop them.
Read article →IP blacklists have been the backbone of email security for decades. But attackers cracked them long ago; they just rotate IPs. ASN reputation scoring closes that gap by scoring at the network level, where attackers can't hide.
Read article →A registration bomb is rarely the real attack. It's the smoke. While your inbox is buried under 200,000 emails, a fraudulent bank transfer is being authorised. The confirmation email is somewhere in the flood.
Read article →Every legitimate mail server knows what to do when delivery temporarily fails: wait and try again. Most attack bots don't. That gap is what greylisting exploits. It quietly eliminates the vast majority of registration bomb traffic before anything else needs to run.
Read article →Deploying an email gateway sounds complex. It isn't. It requires exactly one DNS change (your MX record) and your mail starts routing through the gateway within minutes. Here's what an MX record is, what happens when you change it, and how to do it without breaking anything.
Read article →Suddenly getting hundreds of sign-up confirmation emails from Reddit, Amazon, LinkedIn, and dozens of sites you've never heard of? You're not going mad. It's almost certainly not an accident. Here's what's happening and what to do right now.
Read article →Registration bombs don't send warnings. By the time you notice, 100,000 emails are already in your inbox. Protect your domain now.
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