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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TOTAL SECURITY OVER INTERNET

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The Internet security is an issue that should concern us much at all. It does not matter if you are a large company, an SME or an individual, on the Internet we are all exposed to risks, each day greater, risks from which we must protect ourselves.

Total security over internet
Have you ever refused to buy online because you did not trust that website 100%? Do you have important files of your company in the cloud? Worried about the pages your young child can access? If you've got answered 'Yes' to any of those questions you're within the right place to know about total security on Internet.

How to Improve Your Cybersecurity?

There are 4,000 million Internet users within the world, although most of them are probably unaware of threats like ransomware, phishing or cyberbullying, among others.

And if you don't know about a threat, how can you be prepared to fight it? Here are some tips to improve your Internet security:

1. Keep both the operating system and your mobile apps updated with software that gives you total security from threats. This is essential to avoid new threats not contemplated in previous versions.

2. Have a good filter against spam and never open spam. Check spam with care and do not open attachments from unknown or suspicious senders (sometimes hackers use names and emails of your contacts to write to you, but by reading the mail carefully it is easy to detect oddities in the language, the requests, the context). Banks will never ask you to vary your password via email. Also be wary of exaggerated or unreal offers, they are usually a fraud. Directly to the trash!

3. Install a security solution that gives you total security from threats and scams. There are free and paid solutions to keep your computer protected, which include a multitude of applications to protect mail, Internet browsing, file downloads, against viruses and other threats. You can check here those recommended by the Internet Security Office and choose the ones that best suit you according to the use you make of the network: free tools for your internet security.

4. Create a strong password. Don't look for a simple and easy to remember one because it will be easy to hack. Better create a password with muscle, that is, that contains numbers, lowercase, uppercase, some symbol if the system allows it and at least 8 characters. Obviously, don't use the same password on different sites either, because if the hacker compromises the security of one of them, they could access the rest of your digital spaces with the same password.

5. In Social Networks, to improve your security on the Internet, the best thing is common sense. Think twice before sharing certain personal information. Would something happen if a criminal accesses that information? If the answer is yes, don't share it.

What do you think? Did you already know these recommendations or is it the first time you hear them? Be that as it may, we hope that you put them into practice and that they will be useful to improve your security on the Internet.

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