Bye bye plusnet

[Mark]

When we learned of the attack on our Webmail service, we identified the source of the vulnerability and implemented a fix as quickly as possible. However, following a full audit of our Webmail service we identified a number of additional security vulnerabilities that it has not been possible to patch. While these potential vulnerabilities have not been exploited, we are not prepared to compromise on customer security so we have removed our Webmail service.

So, PN have ripped out their entire webmail solution (@mail). I'm not sure if that means it was the software that was vulnerable or their implementation of it.

Either way that shows just how serious it was.

FYI - they're implementing squirrelmail at the moment as a temporary solution. That's certainly a major step back from @mail, but it's simple, effective, and well trusted in the industry.

[kaiowas]

Thought I'd drag this back up.

As someone who uses webmail exclusively I'm finding the squirrelmail platform to be much nicer to use on a day-to-day basis. It's faster and seems more 'finished'. The @Mail platform had so many silly bugs that it always seemed like I was the only person using it extensively

It should be even better from tomorrow when they start automatically ditching all of my spam instead of just marking it and letting me deal with it. Not quite sure why they couldn't do that sooner.

[Dymetrie]

O rly?

And I love:

Originally Posted by BBC

Neil Armstrong, products director at Plusnet

Dude! He's been to the ****ing moon!!!!

He probably says stuff like:

Originally Posted by Neil Armstrong, products director at Plusnet

You know what you want? You want the moon on a stick...

[Mark]

Yeah, I like SquirrelMail. It's my webmail of choice on my own server, so I LOL'd when PlusNet started mentioning it.

I used @Mail once ('tis the reason I now get spammed) and thought it was bloated rubbish and went back to Outlook. Shame I even tried it tbh.

Wonder what they'll come up with after six months though.

[Daz]

Horde > Squirrel tbh

/OT

[Mark]

Horde is more complete, SquirrelMail is more simple.

I prefer simplicity in my Webmail, thanks.

[Mark]

Webmail Incident Report - for anyone suitably interested.

Signs that at least some of the problems originated in Russia. I guess that as one of the biggest cracking hotspots in the world, that shouldn't surprise me.