due to some successful phishing attempts at my scientific research organization with over 2k personnel, we've been blacklisted by Microsoft, which causes valid e-mails to their domains being rejected. This is a substantial problem, because it prevents a lot of scientists (and administration) from being able to efficiently communicate over the mailing-lists, and the like.
Our ticket system is still been flooded about this and although it is not my responsibility, I wanted to ask: why is it so easy for a three-letter domain, that's been online since the dawn of the Internet to get blacklisted so easily? Even a simple WHOIS request yields a "Changed" record stating 2017. Is the rejection list based on IPs? Is there anything preventing the usage of a more differentiating algorythm?
The respective requests to fix the problem have been sent, but it's been at least a week already and the havoc is real.
Please feel free to share your thoughts. Thank you!
The main problem is that the emails don't bounce, nor go to the spam folder. They just disappear in the air.
If the other person had send an email to you, then the messages usually are delivered. So in our case it's not so bad for old connections.
We are on the cusp of a cyber reaction to ransomware and similar threats that will change our technological and social basis as drastically as Vladimir Lenin or Jesus Christ.
Simply we can not go on as a computer-using society with the lax way we've been doing things.
There will never be another "September 11" because passengers will liquify anyone who tries to breach the cockpit.
Someday we will look at cyber the same.
Two years ago deadly dangerous actions such as "my bank authorizes a spam email from a third party" were not taken seriously at all. (Is it even safe for me to click unsubscribe?) Now the security team at by bank really listens and in two years I think somebody who authorized such an email will be fired immediately.