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Microsoft Tightens Email Authentication: DMARC Enforcement from May 2025 – What IT Admins Need to Know Now

Microsoft Tightens Email Authentication: DMARC Enforcement from May 2025 – What IT Admins Need to Know Now

Microsoft joins the enforcement club As of May 2025, Microsoft has introduced mandatory email authentication requirements for messages delivered to…

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Sender Inventory as Production Infrastructure: Why Companies Must Register Every Email Sender

Sender Inventory as Production Infrastructure: Why Companies Must Register Every Email Sender

Email sending is production infrastructure — and it's still treated like a side project Imagine a developer deploying a new microservice without a ticket,…

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CVE-2026-42897: Exchange Flaw Enables Email Spoofing via XSS – What DMARC Can and Cannot Do

CVE-2026-42897: Exchange Flaw Enables Email Spoofing via XSS – What DMARC Can and Cannot Do

A new Exchange vulnerability is being actively exploited Microsoft has confirmed a critical vulnerability in Exchange Server: CVE-2026-42897 allows attackers…

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npm Staged Publishing and 2FA: New Defenses Against Supply-Chain Attacks – and Why Email Authentication Is the Foundation

npm Staged Publishing and 2FA: New Defenses Against Supply-Chain Attacks – and Why Email Authentication Is the Foundation

npm Raises the Bar for Package Publishing Security npm has introduced two new mechanisms designed to make supply-chain attacks significantly harder: Staged…

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TanStack Supply-Chain Attack: How Email Vectors Put Organizations Like OpenAI at Risk

TanStack Supply-Chain Attack: How Email Vectors Put Organizations Like OpenAI at Risk

What Happened? In May 2026, attackers compromised the TanStack ecosystem — a widely used JavaScript library — to inject malware into the development…

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Ghostwriter Phishing Against Ukrainian Government: When DMARC Says "All Clear" But Shouldn't

Ghostwriter Phishing Against Ukrainian Government: When DMARC Says "All Clear" But Shouldn't

The Attack That DMARC Cannot Stop In May 2026, it emerged that Ghostwriter — a long-running threat actor widely attributed to Belarus — had been running…

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NIS2 Compliance Report at the Click of a Button

NIS2 Compliance Report at the Click of a Button

NIS2 is live — and so is the pressure to prove it Since NIS2 was transposed into national law, IT teams across Europe have been wrestling with a practical…

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External Destination Verification: Why Your DMARC Reports Disappear Without a Trace

External Destination Verification: Why Your DMARC Reports Disappear Without a Trace

What Is External Destination Verification? When you configure DMARC to send aggregate reports to an external email address — meaning a domain other than your…

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DMARCbis: What the DMARC Specification Update Means for Your Organisation

DMARCbis: What the DMARC Specification Update Means for Your Organisation

DMARC grows up RFC 7489, published in 2015, has been the backbone of email authentication for nearly a decade.

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Why your DMARC report shows 46% fail — and why only 3% of it matters

Why your DMARC report shows 46% fail — and why only 3% of it matters

Red report, green delivery — how does that add up? You open your DMARC aggregate report and see 46% SPF fail. First instinct: something is broken, or someone i…

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