Apr 12, 2013
During the last week, there is a massive botnet attack against random WordPress sites on the Internet, attempting to brute-force their administrative sections.
To protect the WordPress sites of our customers, we have set up an automatic brute-force protection for all of them. In case of too many unsuccessful login attempts against a WordPress site, its administrative section login screen will start to display a static page, thus not allowing the botnet to make further password-guess...
Dec 19, 2008
As a part of our security and abuse prevention plan, today we automatically changed the passwords of all mailboxes on our servers, which we found to be insecure. The weak password detection was performed by using automated tools utilizing swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) and simple brute-force attempts, performed on our side against each mailbox.
Weak passwords may result in successful authentication attempts from malicious users which will lead to spam transmitted from our servers thr...
Jan 13, 2005
We are glad to announce that we have integrated a new anti-virus feature into our system. When enabled, the anti-virus software will scan all incoming messages. In case viruses are found, the server will not deliver the infected messages to the user's mailbox. This is the most effective and modern anti-virus solution, and will certainly eliminate a lot of junk e-mail on our servers. Customers should have in mind that the anti-virus software is disabled by default and can be enabled from t...