Starting the blog on a good note- the second quarter of 2023 celebrated a record low of only 34% of victims paying off to ransomware attackers. This decline is due to the propagation of cybersecurity practices, which encouraged companies to educate their employees on red signs and invest in adequate tools and software. Now, to…
Sender Policy Framework or SPF improves the sender’s reputation and email delivery in addition to keeping phishing and spoofing attacks at bay. However, the intricacies involved in creating and managing an SPF record can cause many instances of SPF failures. These issues should be identified, addressed, and fixed at the earliest to avoid downtime and…
Shopify is an e-commerce platform based out of Canada, and if you have an online store listed on it, then adding SPF and DKIM records is important. This ensures no unauthorized entity sends spoofed emails on your behalf to fool recipients into sharing personal and financial details. You can test your email address by sending…
GoDaddy is a popular hosting provider that offers easy-to-follow instructions on adding SPF and DKIM DNS records to stay abreast of phishing and spoofing attacks attempted to tarnish your company’s name. These DNS records help recipients’ servers to verify the authenticity of senders to categorize emails as legitimate and illegitimate. Generally, the changes made in…
An SPF record can encounter different types of errors, causing it to become invalid and incapable of offering protection against phishing and spoofing email messages. These errors arise due to exceeding the character length limit, incorrect use of syntax, misconfigurations, etc. Once the error is resolved, the instances of false positives and protocol breakage stop…
It’s a good practice to regularly run your SPF record through a trusted and credible online SPF checker to come across any existing configurational and syntactical errors. This ensures your fortifier against email phishing and spoofing is fit to fight. If a lookup tool highlights the existence of multiple SPF records, then you need to…
You receive much more than a message and attachments in an email; we are talking about bits of information retrieved during an email header analysis. An email header is metadata that is automatically attached to every email to help determine the allocation of a message in the inbox. The general details in the email header…
With organizations with complex email infrastructure, implementing SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is no easy feat! If you’ve ever encountered the “SPF PermError: Too Many DNS Lookups,” know that your email deliverability is out for a toss owing to the SPF fail. But why does this error message strike? The SPF record has a DNS lookup…
As per RFC 7208 Section 3.1, the developers felt the necessity to assign a new DNS RR type. However, in 2014, it was deprecated as they discovered that TXT type RR was a better choice for SPF records. Today, SPF records must only be published as a DNS TXT RR; otherwise, it will encounter the…
Domain owners who care about email delivery and prevention from phishing attacks take no chances when it comes to the validation and correctness of their SPF records. One of the common elements causing issues in an SPF record is the use of the PTR mechanism due to its slow processing and unreliable nature. This guide…
