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April
2025
04/10/2025 – DNS Texas is deploying an easier way to report phishing or spam emails. Note: you must have message preview enabled. If you have preview disabled, the report spam button may not appear. In supported versions of Outlook, the ‘fish hook’ Report Spam icon will appear. In webmail a line will appear above the […]
31
December
2022
Happy New Year (2023) Thank you for choosing DNS Texas for your technology needs. We hope your 2023 is full of good fortune and health! Here are things you need to know about 2023 and any potential billing/service changes that may be upcoming. Reminders Contacting DNS Texas – we can be reached via phone […]
16
March
2021
Service Change Announcement Effective 01 April 2022, DNS Texas will adopt a flat fee for both remote and onsite services. We will also begin adopting late fees on invoices paid past the due dates. These changes are being made to keep up with ever increasing prices. We will also be separating ‘personal’ web hosting from […]
18
May
2020
SPAM Filter Switch (2020) After many years with XEAMS, we have decided it’s time to move on. The 2020 pricing structure at XEAMS would have forced us to raise our rates to cover the additional costs. We are committed to keeping your costs as low as possible. During the week of 5/18/2020 – 5/22/2020, DNS […]
18
June
2019
Quick Summary A recently discovered, critical, flaw affecting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in multiple versions of Microsoft Windows has been discovered. Both Microsoft and the Department Of Homeland Security strongly urges all customers running affected operating systems to make sure their systems are patched immediately by running Windows Updates. The BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) Vulnerability BlueKeep (AKA: […]
1
January
2018
Happy New Year! Wishing you a Happy New Year – from your friends at DNS Texas! Web : https://www.dnstexas.com Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/dnstexas Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/dnstexas Tags: #newyear #happynewyear #repost #blog
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August
2017
July/August 2017 Newsletter In this July/August 2017 newsletter we cover current SPAM threats, how to request support from DNS Texas, backing up data and useful end-of-life dates for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office products. Current SPAM Threats As summer presses on, we continue to see elevated threats via e-mail… This will only continue to rise […]
27
June
2017
On Tuesday 6/27/2017 another massive ransomware attack hit the world. This one is known as ‘Petya’ appears to have originated from a highly sophisticated Russian strain of the WannaCry strand that hit back in May 2017. The ransomware, if launched, will encrypt all files on the user’s computer, making them unusable. The ‘worm’ also transmits […]
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May
2017
URGENT Malware/Ransomware Newsletter – May 2017 As you may have heard, a new threat has emerged on the internet known as WannaCry (AKA Wcry and WannaCryptor), although the exploit is not new as far as what it does, this latest ransomware threat has already crippled companies overseas and has started to show up in the […]