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January 2018

Email hygiene mandate takes hold at agencies

Nearly half of federal website domains have policies in place to deal with spoofed emails after an October 2017 Department of Homeland Security directive mandated the use new email and web security standards.

According to a December 2017 report by cybersecurity company Agari, approximately 47 percent of the 1,106 federal domains have adopted policies for Domain-based Message authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), which allows for improved detection and management of spoofed emails. That figure is up from 34 percent in November 2017.

President Trump's love-hate relationship with the (not) 'failing' New York Times

As a native New Yorker, Donald Trump has been reading the New York Times for decades. When I worked at the Times in the late 2000s, Trump sometimes sent me and my colleagues copies of our stories from the print edition with a compliment or a complaint scrawled in black sharpie pen. During his presidential campaign, Trump routinely called the Times "failing," often seemingly in response to stories he did not like. His campaign even threatened to sue The Times, but did not follow through.

Mighty Mouse: Disney, Fox, and the Future of TV

What does this megadeal tell us about the future of TV?

  1. Broadband Video Is The Future
  2. The Future of TV is Global
  3. The Future of Video is Full Stack & D2C

The future of the TV business will be a grand, global game played out over broadband and delivered via apps. The prize is direct access to the hearts, minds, and wallets of middle-class urbanites around the world. Prior to this announcement, Netflix was leaving the competition in its dust. No more. Netflix needs to take a serious look in the rear view mirror.

Net Neutrality Is Gone For Now. But Here's Everything That's Next

Here’s how the concept of a free and open internet will continue to exist despite the repelation of these net neutrality regulations. If you’re a fan of internet freedom who would rather not pay several hundreds of dollars every year to be able to access the specific websites you like, the first and probably easiest way for you to fight back would be to use a virtual private network (VPN). But there’s a catch.

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