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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RISKS OF ONLINE SHOPPING

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With the increase in electronic commerce, added to the wide range of products found online, it is important to distinguish the threats that digital sales may eventually hide.

To begin with, it is necessary to clarify that buying online is not synonymous with scam, theft, fraud or loss of data; On the contrary, it is a business that has many benefits but that, like physical sales, can also present potential threats.

Risks of online shopping

It is not so difficult to understand this sustained growth, because instead of walking to a bank and queuing to pay a bill, many are preferring to do the same in a matter of seconds from their cell phone or computers. The above is just one example of how the benefits of electronic commerce translate into savings in time, money and physical effort; There are even payment methods that, with prior authorization from the user, are capable of automatically discounting the amount to be paid by the person, making forgetting to cancel an invoice a thing of the past.

If this scenario is transferred to buying items online, the fact of not leaving the house and receiving the products at home is another component that attracts many to resort to this type of purchase.

However, just as in physical commerce, one must be aware of not receiving a false bill, a poor quality product or being scammed, in the virtual plane, a series of recommendations must also be addressed to avoid being victims of criminals who they operate under various modalities associated with the Internet.

For this manager it is essential to validate elements such as the reliability of the web page in which the purchase is being sought. The above can be achieved by verifying the terms and conditions that it has, which explains, for example, what happens if the purchased product does not meet the customer's expectations or something contrary to what was ordered simply arrives; that the platform shows an investment by the developers in such a way that it is easy to navigate, that it does not have spelling errors and that the prices shown by the products are not incredibly low; All these factors are indicators that a page may be a hook to scam potential buyers.

Bernal also assures that the type of threat most present in Colombia is ' phishing ', a form in which, for example, a criminal can pose as a purchasing agent for a company and request sensitive information from the victim such as the number of your credit card, the expiration date and the security code, data with which you can make purchases in a non-present way.

The problem with this is that some regulations allow companies such as travel agencies to request this type of information by phone, then the question that remains for the buyer is how to know that the person who is calling me is really an agent of purchases? Needless to say, the main recommendation is to distrust at all times and not deliver, under any reason, that information by phone, mail or chat

With the intention of providing security in purchases that involve payments by credit or debit card, there are platforms such as Mercado Pago and PayU, among others, whose mission is to guarantee a correct transaction; Having said the above, it is prudent to verify that the purchasing portals have one of these companies that, preferably, comply with international standards in this matter.

You should be sure about the mail and transaction you’re doing is safe and for that you need total security while doing online transaction or Internet banking. Total security will help you from being trapped and be safe from scams.

An additional tip is, whenever possible, always make transactions on trusted computers that are connected to secure internet networks, since cybercriminals can install ' malware ' on computers to spy on people's information and steal sensitive data. In the same way, it is recommended to handle secure passwords, which are not the same to access other portals such as social networks or emails and have a software that give you total security on your activities done online.

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