The Dark Art of Email Deliverability
We often get questions over the technologies which help get your legitimate email delivered. There are three main ones: SPF – Used to lock down email sources to your servers DKIM – To authenticate your sent emails DMARC – For real world email reporting and DKIM enforcement Email is vital to any organisation. Ensuring your […]
BBC micro:bit Launched
Yesterday the new BBC micro:bit 2016 was launched. Over a million were given to Year 7 students in the UK for them to take home and keep – just in time for the Easter break! The tiny device can be plugged into a computer and programmed to do all sorts of cool stuff and is […]
Welcome Claire Christmas!
We are pleased to announce the expansion of our team in the form of Claire Christmas (yes that really is her real name!) Claire will be joining us as an Office Manager and brings with her years of administration and customer services skill as well as a real passion for cost savings and efficiency. Into […]
DROWN vulnerability
Dogsbody Technology maintenance customers are already protected against the newly disclosed DROWN attack, but as of the 1st March, 33% of all HTTPS sites are affected by this vulnerability. The DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption) vulnerability affects HTTPS and other services that rely on SSL and TLS, these cryptographic protocols that make […]
CVE-2015-7547 glibc vulnerability
In the past few days Google has identified a vulnerability in glibc (GNU C Library). It allows attackers to crash processes and potentially run code remotely on your server. The vulnerability itself is best described by the Google Security Team’s blog-post. To summarise: “The glibc DNS client side resolver is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer […]
Data Privacy Day 2016
Today is Data Privacy Day! It’s been taking place annually on the 28th of January since 2007, and this year is no different. As you may have worked out already, data privacy day is all about protecting and maintaining your privacy, especially in the online world. One of the main focuses of the day is […]