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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. 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 so
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THE MOST COMMON CYBER THREATS TODAY

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On many occasions, any computer threat is called a virus, something that is not entirely correct, since there is a specific name for each threat. In this post, we are going to find out which names are given to each of them and which can endanger not only our personal computer but also the computer network of any company. Taking into account that Spain is the third country in the world in terms of cyberattacks, with about 200,000 daily attacks according to the National Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures, it never hurts to know what the threats are. It must be remembered that, although DDoS attacks are one of the most lethal that can exist today, there are many other threats like the ones we are going to list below. MALWARE - They are codes designed by cybercriminals whose objective is to change the operation of any computer system, especially without the infected user noticing. They have the ability to corrupt the files that you have saved on your hard drive or e
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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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TESTING THE ANTIVIRUS THAT YOU USE

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Have you ever wondered how antivirus is tested before it is available on the market? The truth is that, despite what you may think at first, these applications pass a series of tests that have the mission, obviously, of verifying their effectiveness. Well, for most IT security vendors these assessments are now out of date. Testing an antivirus before its launch is something that is done regularly. Thus, the AV Tests (name by which the aforementioned tests are known) allow users to choose which antivirus they want to install on their computers, knowing what their main characteristics are and what they protect against. So far everything normal. So what is the problem? Some manufacturers of security solutions have raised their voices against the fact that these tests are “not modernized”. In what sense? Some companies claim that, although the complexity of security applications has grown considerably in recent times, when conducting evaluations they do not test the new technologies w
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BOOT SECTOR VIRUS

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Boot sector viruses are one of the oldest forms of computer viruses. They infect the boot sector or partition table of a hard drive so that they start the moment the computer is turned on. Here is everything you need to know about them and the threat they pose. It affects system with the hard drive. Mainly, PC-based computers are affected more frequently, although a Mac system may be affected as well. What is boot sector virus? A boot sector virus is not a specific virus, it is a particular way that viruses can affect your computer. A boot sector is a physical sector on your hard drive that is required to initiate the boot process and load your operating system. By placing a virus here, it means that the virus is activated every time you start your computer, even before your operating system starts to start. Often times, you won't even realize it's happening, making the threat even worse. How does the boot sector virus work? Each boot sector virus works differentl
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