Google Gmail Scanning: How to Stop the New Update From Live Monitoring
Google's new update means they're scanning your Gmail. Understand this privacy shift, its implications, and how to turn off or manage these settings. Protect your data by staying informed about Google Gmail scanning and privacy updates. Act now!
#googlegmail #privacytips #emailsecurity #techupdates #dataprotection
https://bulklayers.com/blog/google-gmail-scanning-how-to-stop-the-new-update-from-live-monitoring/
How to Encrypt an Email in Outlook (2026): Protect Sensitive Emails and Attachments ๐
Learn how to send secure Outlook emails, encrypt attachments, use Do Not Forward, and protect private communication from unauthorized access.
The protocol gap nobody talks about
most DMARC monitoring platforms cover 5-6 protocols
this isn't a feature gap. it's a visibility gap.
if your monitoring tool doesn't cover MTA-STS, you won't know when your transport encryption policy is being downgraded.
if it doesn't parse ARC chains, you can't trace authentication through forwarders.
9 protocols exist for a reason. each one covers a different attack surface.
12.8% enforcement: the real DMARC number
I see "DMARC adoption is growing" headlines everywhere
and sure, 30.4% of the 5.5M domains I scanned have a DMARC record
only 12.8% of those domains are at `p=quarantine` or `p=reject`
the rest sit at `p=none`
collecting reports, taking no action, providing no protection against spoofing
that means 87.2% of domains are either unprotected or watching attacks happen
We analyzed DMARC report emails from the last 3 days across nearly 3,500 reporting organisations. Looking only at organisations that sent a substantial volume of reports during that period, just 9 were fully RFC compliant (GMX, WEB.DE & mail.com), while most major reporting organisations had at least one compliance issue.
The most common problems were surprisingly basic: missing required fields like "version", "envelope_from", and SPF "scope", invalid attachment filenames and media types, empty "<sp/>" elements, and invalid values like "sampled_out", "unknown", "hardfail", and even "Pass" with a capital P.
Some large providers scored well but still had edge case issues. Comcast, Microsoft, and Fastmail were close, but not perfect.
Others performed far worse. Yahoo, Google, Amazon SES, and Mimecast all generated large volumes of non-compliant reports.
At DMARC scale, small XML mistakes create real interoperability problems. They break parsers, cause data loss, and force receiving platforms to build endless workarounds.
Weโve already contacted several organisations and shared examples of the issues we found. The goal is better interoperability across the email ecosystem. Until then, DMARC platforms like URIports will keep doing their unofficial second job: translating creative interpretations of the RFC into something that actually parses ๐
More details: https://www.uriports.com/blog/dmarc-reports-ietf-rfc-compliance/
#DMARC #EmailSecurity #EmailAuthentication #SPF #DKIM #CyberSecurity #RFC7489 #URIports
Top malicious IPs observed on 2026-05-06
141.98.10.42 (Lithuania) https://sh4meful.com/ip/141.98.10.42
50.127.181.82 (United States) https://sh4meful.com/ip/50.127.181.82
147.78.181.187 (Russia) https://sh4meful.com/ip/147.78.181.187
20.61.126.208 (The Netherlands) https://sh4meful.com/ip/20.61.126.208
89.239.126.195 (Poland) https://sh4meful.com/ip/89.239.126.195
62.60.130.142 (Iran) https://sh4meful.com/ip/62.60.130.142
188.187.110.66 (Russia) https://sh4meful.com/ip/188.187.110.66
your domain health in one check
the domain health check runs all 9 email authentication protocols against your domain in a single query
- SPF syntax
- DMARC policy
- DKIM selectors
- MTA-STS mode
- TLS-RPT reporting
- BIMI record
- DANE/TLSA
- and ARC chain validation
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one domain, 9 protocols, 30 seconds
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Top malicious IPs observed on 2026-05-05
158.94.210.93 (The Netherlands) https://sh4meful.com/ip/158.94.210.93
141.98.10.42 (Lithuania) https://sh4meful.com/ip/141.98.10.42
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Izoate
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