ReadSourcesas of 2026-09-15
- Media News Daily: Top Stories for 09/15/2026
This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, Censorship... The post Media News Daily: Top Stories for 09/15/2026 appeared first on Media Bias/Fact Check .
- MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 09/15/2026
Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only use fact-checkers who are either signatories to the International Fact-Checking... The post MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 09/15/2026 appeared first on Media Bias/Fact Check .
- One or two nameservers?
Do multiple dual-stack nameservers increase or decrease repeat DNS queries? The results of this experiment were a complete surprise.
- Search Central Live India 2026: Bengaluru, We're Coming (For Real This Time)
Remember back in March when we told our Indian community to "sit tight" while we figured out the APAC event calendar? Hopefully, you didn't take that too literally, because sitting tight for six months is probably not great for your back. In any case, you can finally stand up an…
- Asia Pacific research networks commit to stronger cyber resilience cooperation
Research and education network leaders across the Asia Pacific have signed the Auckland Declaration of Intent on Cyber Resilience, committing to stronger regional cooperation on cyber preparedness, information sharing, and incident coordination.
- Speaking Fluent ROI: Financial KPIs for Email
When Google’s Dan Givol joined us for a recent State of Email webinar, he declared himself a big fan of email marketing—when it’s done well, of course. In fact, he went one step further and said he wished more businesses would think about the value of their email programs the …
- Bad Ideas: Why Giving Your Email List to a Third Party Is Just Dumb
A story recently broke on 404 Media that made deliverability experts everywhere cry a little inside: YouTube channel Channel 5 admitted to handing a CSV file of its email subscribers over to a third party so that person could market a new product to them. Putting aside the speci…
- We've got one word for it, and it's usually the wrong one
In this week's Threat Source newsletter, Joe explores why the word "burnout" often fails to capture the true toll of working in the cybersecurity industry and why we need better language to address it.
- Associated Domain Check: Policy Development Process
Since March 2026, a multi-stakeholder Working Group has been developing policy on the concept of an Associated Domain Check (ADC) as part of the ICANN’s Policy Development Process (PDP) ( “PDP 1”). On 18 August 2026 the Working Group issued their Initial Report for comment. The …
- iOS27: Bringing Apple Mail Improvements
Apple will officially release iOS 27 on Monday, September 14, 2026. With that release comes an updated version of Apple Mail on mobile. 9to5Mac (and others) say that improvements will include faster message loading, more reliable search, and more. Will there be other impacts? Wi…
- The /3 Body Problem
A large chunk of IPv6 is heading for space, and every policy question about it is currently going to be deferred to the RIR communities. This article outlines what those questions look like, and argues why now is the time to start asking them.
- New from Validity: The Heatwave Domain Blocklist
Validity just launched something very interesting: the Heatwave Domain Blocklist , and the goal is to identify and measure reputation of domains engaged in “synthetic warming” (automated exchanges between controlled mailboxes designed to make a young domain look trustworthy) and…
- Active exploitation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities
Cisco Talos is actively tracking the exploitation of two vulnerabilities in Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software.
- Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes
Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security exp…
- The Internet’s New Edge Builders
After building private backbones, content and cloud platforms are now moving closer to users. In doing so, they are taking on delivery roles once associated mainly with independent CDNs.
- Email Radar: Pixel Tracking is Officially Dying in Europe—What This Means Globally
Validity is committed to leveraging our research, data, and MBP partnerships to keep the marketing ecosystem informed. The headline Data protection regulators in France (CNIL) and Italy (Garante) have ruled that email open-tracking pixels used for marketing now require explici…
- “Climate change is here, and it hurts” — interview with the European Environment Agency’s Executive Director
The enr spoke with European Environment Agency chief about the aftermath of this summer’s heatwaves, droughts and wildfires as the EU seeks to bolster its adaptation to climate change-related disasters.
- FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appe…
- Renewables key to cutting fossil fuel use and stabilising energy prices, European Environment Agency says
Energy prices remain a major concern for European citizens, with households and businesses exposed to the increasing volatility of global energy markets. The European Environment Agency sees a clear long-term solution: accelerating the shift to renewable energy.
- Turscar Isle
Have you ever wanted to sneak in to a cult of spammers and rob them blind?
- Update to the Site Reputation Policy
In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content is published on a trusted website just to exploit that site's good reputation to rank higher in Search. This practice hurts search quality, and creates a bad experience for users.
- What Is Social Listening: Definition and How It Works
Social listening is reading what people say about a brand across social, forums, video and press for sentiment and risk. Definition, how it works, why it matters.
- Enterprise Reputation Crisis Recovery: Search Impact & Timeline
What a reputation crisis changes in branded search, the four stages of reputation recovery, and how long each takes. Timelines from client engagements and the Crisis Index 300.
- Interview with Stripo - extended thoughts
While I was in Vienna at the IETF meeting last week, Stripo published an interview I did with them earlier this summer.
- Botnet Threat Update January to June 2026
Between Jan–Jun 2026 botnet C&C servers observed decreased -30% to 14,952. Sliver overtook Cobalt Strike for the #1 spot (+58%). Meanwhile .cn botnet C&C domains surged +771% and India's PDR registrar saw a +901% spike in abused registrations - though REGRU bucked the trend with…
- Cloudflare DMARC Management is now generally available
Get unified visibility into your email authentication posture and reach full DMARC enforcement with deeper reporting, record analysis, and SPF audits free for every Cloudflare customer.
- Spamhaus CERT Insight Portal: Enhanced botnet C&C intelligence
More than 100 CERTs and CSIRTs rely on Spamhaus data to help remediate malware infections in their countries. Today, we’re giving them even more data to work with. The Spamhaus CERT Insight Portal has been updated with enriched threat intel and improved capabilities to help nati…
- Bulletproof Hosting: Cutting off the facilitators
Behind every bulletproof host sits a chain of facilitators: IP address brokers, network carriers, and datacenters whose services are essential to keeping criminal operations online. This post explores how Spamhaus targets those facilitators, and why steadily shrinking their opti…
- Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Integration
The NetBeacon Institute continues to expand the available categories to support the critical work of creating a safer Internet. We are proud to announce that as part of an expanded partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and Public Interest Registry, IWF will now ac…
- IETF Publishes Updated DMARC Specification
On May 20th, 2026 the IETF’s RFC Editor published three documents that update the DMARC protocol, making the changes and enhancements previously referred to as “DMARCbis” official, and moving the updated DMARC protocol to the IETF’s Standards Track. This represents many years of…
- NetBeacon Reporter expands accepted harm categories as it surpasses 400,000 Reports
The NetBeacon Institute is pleased to share that NetBeacon Reporter has expanded the types of harms accepted through the centralized reporting conduit. These new features come as NetBeacon has surpassed 400,000 reports of DNS Abuse. This achievement marks significant and conti…
- How Cloudy translates complex security into human action
Cloudy is our LLM-powered explanation layer built directly into Cloudflare One. Its explanations, now part of Phishnet and API CASB, can improve user decisions and SOC efficiency.
- Updated DMARC Statistics Published
It has been several years since the statistics for DMARC policy records had been updated on this page. The main reason for this was surges of up to millions of records each quarter, if not each month. They would show up, demanding analysis and explanation, and then in many cases…