Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:02:04 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

   in reply to

   • Jonathan Kamens

   @jik
   Keep in mind that proof point is one of those enterprise computing companies masquerading as a cloud computing company.

   • Embed this notice
     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:02:05 JST Jonathan Kamens

     in reply to

     It looks like PNC Paid is using #ProofPoint servers for its outbound email delivery. I know from personal experience that ProofPoint absolutely sucks at email delivery, so perhaps that's part of the problem.

     Note that ProofPoint, A SECURE EMAIL COMPANY, runs mail servers that are incapable of negotiating non-deprecated TLS ciphers:

     STARTTLS=server, error: accept failed=-1, reason=no shared cipher, SSL_error=1, errno=0, retry=-1, relay=mx0a-000ade01.pphosted.com [205.220.165.107]

     #infosec

   • Embed this notice
     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:02:06 JST Jonathan Kamens

     in reply to

     I then tried using the link in the _other_ email from PNC Paid to see if it would work any better. It did not; again, I received no code.
     I emailed the people orchestrating all this and asked for assistance. They responded, "PNC initially got a bounce back from this address, which I imagine is the root of the problems. I’ll ask them to reach out directly to assist."
     Which is bullshit because my email server works perfectly fine and does not bounce legitimate emails.
     smdh

   • Embed this notice
     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:02:08 JST Jonathan Kamens

     in reply to

     I tried to use the link in one of the emails and the code previously sent to me to start the process, and I was blocked when the site claimed it was sending an authorization code to my email and then… just didn't. I _know_ they didn't because I run my own mail server and I can see from the logs that there was no attempt to send me an email containing a code. I waited until that code timed out and tried again. Again, no code email was sent to me.
     (continued)

   • Embed this notice
     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:02:09 JST Jonathan Kamens

     in reply to

     Follow up on this: I received an email message from "PNC Paid" with instructions for using the code I was emailed previously to start the process of receiving my stock payout.
     Then I received a _second_, nearly identical email from "PNC Paid" a few hours later, sent to a different email address of mine, with a different link in it. Which is problematic because the email claims the link is customized for me.
     (continued)

   • Embed this notice
     Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:02:10 JST Jonathan Kamens

     Here's a piece of #freeAdvice for #startup #CEO's…
     If you're acquired, make sure you get an email out to all your shareholders, a.k.a. former employees with exercised stock options, about the acquisition _before_ the law firm handling the acquisition sends them email containing the code they'll need to access their stock option payout.
     In other, definitely related news, my former employer #Numerated has apparently been acquired by #MoodysAnalytics, and I'll be getting some money from my stock.