LuxSci FYI

DuoSecurity: Advanced Two-Factor Login for LuxSci’s Web Interface

Erik Kangas — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:06:55 +0000

Two-Factor logins require users to

Enter their username and password properly (the 1st factor)
Authenticate a second way (e.g. by entering a code delivered to their mobile phones).

Use of two-factor authentication ensures that even if a user’s

SecureForm: Protect Yourself from Form Post Failures Using AJAX

Erik Kangas — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:22:49 +0000

Case in point — you have an important web-based form and a visitor has spent 30 minutes filling it out. The visitor presses the “submit form” button and the form post fails (because the visitor has lost Internet connectivity or>> read the complete answer

PCI for the Uninitiated – How to Accept Credit Card Payments Online

Erik Kangas — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:47:23 +0000

Any person or organization who accepts credit card payments online (or offline) is required to abide by PCI security standards. It doesn’t matter if you accept only one payment a year … or millions. Everyone who accepts, stores,>> read the complete answer

Transactional Bulk Email: How to Setup using LuxSci High Volume Bulk Email

Erik Kangas — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:35:16 +0000

Transactional bulk email messages are those that have mostly similar content and which go out to recipients as needed. These may be to the same set of recipients over and over, or to new recipients every time. What makes them>> read the complete answer

High Volume Bulk Email: Key Ingredients for Good Deliverability

zmiller@luxsci.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:08:30 +0000

How do you ensure your messages make it into your recipients’ INBOXes?

Deliverability is key to anyone sending newsletters, announcements, notifications, or any other type of bulk email. As a provider of premium and bulk email services, we>> read the complete answer

DKIM: Fight Spam and Forged Email by Signing your Messages

Erik Kangas — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:15:48 +0000

LuxSci has long supported SPF for inbound and outbound email. SPF is a mechanism by which you can specify what servers are permitted to send email for your domain … and identify email from other places that may be fraudulent.>> read the complete answer

Email Delivery Failures Reports: Real-time and Automated

Erik Kangas — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:32:03 +0000

Generally, when you send an email message and it fails to be delivered, you get a “bounce back” to inform you of this. This delivery failure notification system is inherent in the way email works and does a good job,>> read the complete answer

Sent Email Delivery Tracking Reports Have Arrived

Erik Kangas — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:20:40 +0000

What happened to that email message that I sent 3 days ago? It “never arrived!”.

Our Support team fields this kind of question on a daily basis. Usually the message never arrived because the address was misspelled, the message was>> read the complete answer

Feedback Loops: Monitor your bulk email reputation

Erik Kangas — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:05:50 +0000

Many major Internet Service Providers (e.g. AOL, Hotmail, MSN, Comcast, etc.) have FBLs “feedback loops” for reporting SPAM complaints by their users. I.e. if a user “marks a message as Spam”, information about that message and the fact that it>> read the complete answer

A Bundle of Password and Login Security Enhancements

Erik Kangas — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:07:42 +0000

LuxSci has released a set of user password security features that complement many of its existing password security options so that, as a whole, they meet the needs of any kind of password security requirement.

This post reviews many of the existing>> read the complete answer