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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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FIGHTING WITH DARK WEB

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On the Internet there are lesser known digital spaces, where users can access and navigate while maintaining greater privacy. A characteristic that has allowed some of these networks to more easily proliferate services that offer illegal content, which minors are accessing. So we want to explain what the Deep Web and the Dark Web are, what their risks are and help you identify if your children are accessing and how you should act. DEEP WEB The Internet is much bigger than what we see with the naked eye, and there are other areas of the Internet that are kept hidden from the conventional user. It is what is known as the Deep Web or deep Internet, and responds to the need to maintain greater privacy and anonymity, essential for the protection of the data that is hosted on it. The problem is that this space also facilitates the development of illegal activities that are hidden in this less controllable and known area. When we use the Internet, we access the content offered by differ
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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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