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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KEYLOGGER IS A DANGEROUS VIRUS

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A Keylogger is a particularly harmful virus, which seeks to copy everything we type on the keyboard looking for accounts, users and passwords to get hold of.

Keylogger is a dangerous virus
The Internet is the site of all the knowledge and entertainment of the 21st century. As soon as you are reading the news in your trusted digital newspaper such as watching a game of your team in streaming or watching a tutorial on a video social network. But not everything there is good, as some users try to sneak a virus to the most unwary. That is why we tell you what a Keylogger is and how to avoid them.

A silent and very dangerous virus

The malicious codes that circulate on the network are of the most varied. Everyone is afraid that their computer will freeze at the most unexpected moment, or that someone will take remote control without your authorization, but the most scary thing is that someone will access your data without your permission. In fact, currently ransomware is the most feared virus, since it works like a hijacking of your machine that will only be eliminated by paying the hacker's demands, as we have seen on occasion.

But there are others that are also very scary and are much more discreet. One of them is the Keylogger. It is a computer virus whose function is to record each and every one of the keystrokes on your keyboard. Its purpose is not to tease you by pressing keys at random and make you think that you have misspelled the entire content of a text, but to steal your information through each key. Of course, each letter is registered, these create words and in turn a possible password to steal from your Fortine account until you know your bank position.

For those who see it, they are only letters placed one after another, but if in any case they find what can be an address, a user and then a password, the hacker can now roam freely through your accounts with the security that will supplant your identity successfully.

How to Avoid a Keylogger

Now that you know what Keylogger-type viruses are and how they work, let's move on to the security section. Digital measures range from installing a good antivirus software with a specific detector for these viruses, although many protection software already have this feature in both its paid and free versions. It's also a good idea to keep your account secure with 2-Step Verification if you feel more secure by putting a random generated code at each login.

You can also have a password manager installed, since you will not need to type, but the program will start your session with an encrypted code made to be malicious. One of these programs is LessPass, which has its own extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome so that you don't have to install anything else on your PC.

But the best recommendation we can give you to protect yourself against a Keylogger is to be careful around the network. These viruses appear especially in phishing attempts, download pages or links of dubious origin. Knowing this, you just have to be careful not to fall into any of these digital traps.

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