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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MAIN RISKS IN THE USE OF THE INTERNET BY CHILDREN

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In today’s world where everything is made online from classes to shopping, children are more attractive towards the internet, but “Is it safe for them?” So, here we are going to discuss

risks on internet for children

Few risks associated with children on internet

Ø Bullying

On the Internet, cyberbullying (or cyberbullying) takes various forms and is different from the face-to-face bullying that can be observed within schools. The Cyberbullying includes, among others, send messages of hate or threaten peers, spreading lies or make nasty comments intended to humiliate. The main difference between this type of harassment and the “traditional” one is the distance between aggressors and victims, something that causes the usual inhibition mechanisms to not work. Anonymity that the Internet allows attackers and freedom of having no adults around, are factors that the cyberbullying is considered by many experts as the greatest risk to children online.

Ø Exposure To Inappropriate Material

Today, it is possible to find practically everything on the Internet, including content that is not appropriate for the youngest, even illegal. There are various control and content block software, but the so-called “digital natives” often find ways to bypass them.

Ø Identity Theft

The management of personal data is one of the most important knowledge that users must have when browsing. For children, however, that awareness is not so clear. Identity theft, via phishing or other methods, is much more common than you might think, and while children's identities are often of little value to hackers, their parents' identities are.

Ø Abusive Purchases or Charges

The ease of buying products and services online triggered consumption through mobile devices and, with it, also abusive charges. The acquisition of unwanted products and services is one of the biggest problems parents face when sharing devices with their children.

Ø Sexual Predators

Different experts in pedagogy and technology defend that there are no reasons for children to create profiles on social networks, but the reality is that many do. This degree of exposure (with photos, videos and personal details such as age and address), together with the anonymity of the interlocutors, leaves children in a particularly vulnerable position.

Ø Children And Online Safety

So how do you manage these risks to ensure cybersecurity in the classroom and at home when browsing the internet?

Technology has so many advantages. Break down barriers and bring minds together in ways that were unthinkable less than 50 years ago. The greatest advances of our civilization in recent years have come from technological advances. However, the high speed at which we integrate technological advances into our lives is, to a certain extent, responsible for these cybersecurity problems.

Developers, companies and users sometimes make the mistake of putting benefits before security. For this reason, it is not unusual to find those responsible for the education sector who are committed to absolute control, especially within the school environment. Such control would include blocking websites, monitoring domains, restricting browsing permissions, or limited use and even suppression of social networks.

In the United States, for example, many of these measures have been implemented in schools, but the results have not been effective. According to some experts, this happens mainly due to the lack of harmony between the control exercised in the classroom and the permissiveness practiced at home.

Strategies for Safer Use of the Internet

A teacher is just one part of the equation needed to handle this problem, but there are several strategies for approaching the topic in class.

ENGAGING PARENTS: Talking to parents about the dangers of inappropriate use and encouraging them to talk to their children about it is an effective way to ensure that students are safe online, both at school and at home. Directing parents to readily available sources of information can help them in this task.

PROVIDE RESOURCES TO STUDENTS: Responsible navigation is not, in principle, a subject that students are passionate about. Instead of forcing them to watch a one-hour video that they will retain little or nothing, they must look for other types of resources that captivate their attention. Games and short videos with testimonials from other children of a similar age who have had problems with the use of the Internet are usually much more useful.

ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEBATE: Instead of limiting yourself to explaining risks and making a list of precautions to be taken and situations to avoid, creating fictitious scenarios and encouraging students to comment on them is a good way for them to find out about hazards and better understand why and how they should be protected. The goal is to allow students to reach their own conclusions and figure out the answers for themselves. These scenarios are very helpful in teaching students how to handle painful, uncomfortable, or dangerous situations.

Teachers and Parents as Guides

To achieve the goal of safer Internet use, teachers and parents need to do their part. In addition to the strategies already mentioned, there are other details that these guides can and should address:

MONITOR ACTIVITY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS: We are not talking about being always present and looking at everything they do, who they talk to or what photos they send. But it is important, as friends, to follow the activity on social networks and to be involved in the online relationships that children maintain using a parental control that is provided by a good antivirus .Being patient and not making too many judgments can be the difference between establishing trust with children or not. The most negative thing that can happen is that a child takes refuge in lies and deception.

MAKE COMMITMENTS:  A promise is a good tool to convey to the little ones the importance of something. The commitments will serve as a constant reminder of your knowledge of Internet safety and your duty to implement that knowledge.

PRACTICE WHAT IS SAID: Since trust, personal and mutual, is one of the key elements in this guide / student dynamic, it is especially important to set the example and do what is being taught. If a child sees that their guide does not respect the rules and advice they defend, that trust is lost and it will be much more difficult to make them understand that the danger is real.

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