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Someone at Microsoft has some explaining to do after a messed up DNS record caused emails sent from Hotmail accounts Microsoft Outlook Hotmail accounts to be rejected and directed to spam folders overnight beginning Thursday.returned with errors
SPF, for those unfamiliar with it, is a method of outbound email authentication that helps avoid email spoofing, impersonation and phishing. If, for example, a service like Hotmail were to have one of its subdomains removed from the DNS TXT record that stores its SPF list, then recipient services may assume it's junk.Reddit users posting to the Sysadmin subreddit verified they were experiencing SPF issues with Hotmail.
At time of writing, the status page indicated that"a recent change to email authentication" was the potential root cause of the outage. Microsoft said it made a configuration change to remediate impact, but shortly after said the problem may have been worse than it appeared at first glance. Microsoft didn't respond to our questions about the incident, only saying the issue had been resolved.Last week was a quiet one for critical vulns, but Cisco and Juniper still managed to put out some patches worthy of your attention.
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