WHAT IS EMAIL BOMBARDMENT?

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An email bombing is an attack on your inbox that involves sending massive amounts of messages to it. Sometimes these messages are incomprehensible. But more often, they will be confirmation emails for newsletters and subscriptions. Thus, in the latter case, the attacker uses a script to search for forums and newsletters on the internet. Then they sign up for an account with your email address. Each will send you a confirmation email, asking you to confirm your address. Also, this process is repeated on as many unprotected sites as the script can find. The term Email Bombing or Email Bombing; it can also refer to flooding an email server with too many emails. In an attempt to overwhelm the server and disable it. But that's not the goal here; it would be a challenge to cut down on the modern email accounts used. Meanwhile, Google or Microsoft email servers, anyway. So instead of a denial of service (DOS) attack; against the email servers you are using. Also, the flood of messages
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Internet Security

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What is the internet security?

Internet security is all those precautions that are taken to protect all the elements that are part of the network, such as infrastructure and information, which is usually the most affected by cyber criminals.

internet security, information protection

Computer security is responsible for creating methods, procedures and standards that are able to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities in information and physical equipment, such as computers.

This type of security has databases, files and equipment that prevent important information from falling into the hands of the wrong people.

One of the best ways to stay protected on the internet is through antivirus, to understand them much better, enter our course on computer viruses and antivirus.

Main risks on the internet

Some of the things that cybercriminals seek to achieve through the internet are:

  • Information theft
  • Information damage
  • Attacks on systems or equipment
  • Identity fraud
  • Sale of personal data
  • Money theft

Cyber criminals use various ways to attack a victim online, such as viruses with which they manage to breach systems and alter the operation of electronic devices, or pishing, which consists of a cybercriminal posing as a different person by means of emails, instant messaging or social networks to acquire confidential information such as passwords, credit cards, among others.

How to prevent it?

If you handle a lot of information and you have several teams, as in the cases of companies, it is best to ask for help from professionals in charge of internet security.

On the other hand, as a user you can take several preventive measures such as keeping the antivirus activated and updated on our devices with an internet connection, avoiding financial operations on open networks or public computers and checking the attachments of messages from strangers and avoiding downloading them if its content is not fully certain.

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