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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

CYBERATTACKS AGAINST THE EDUCATION SECTOR

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There is a global increase in cyberattacks against educational and research institutions, after conducting an analysis on institutions in different areas of the United States, Europe and Asia. The US has the largest increase in education-related attacks. Between July and August 2020, the average number of weekly attacks on its educational infrastructures increased by 30% (threats directed against the rest of the sectors increased "only" by 6.5%), going from 468 cyberattacks to 608, compared to the previous two months. On the other hand, Europe registered a 24% increase in weekly attacks in July and August, from 638 to 793, while the rate of cyberattacks directed against the rest of the sectors in Europe increased by 9%. For its part, in Asia, between July and August 2020, cyberattacks increased by 21%, from 1,322 to 1,598, compared to the previous two months. The rate for the rest of the sectors increased by 3.5%. The primary method of attack against the US education sy

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