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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

DO WE NEED FIREWALL AND ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE BOTH?

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Both firewall and antivirus software are security mechanisms designed to protect your system. A firewall is a low-level network security system designed to protect your system and network from malicious damage. Antivirus, on the other hand, is a software utility program designed to protect your computer from insider threats like viruses, malware, spyware, etc. The purpose of a firewall is to restrict any unauthorized access to the system by monitoring network traffic inside and outside the system. It inspects the flow of data from the Internet to the system to decide which should be allowed and which should be restricted. The purpose of an antivirus program is to detect, scan, prevent, and remove harmful programs that can compromise your computer. Typically, a firewall works at the network protocol level to protect public and private networks from unwanted intrusions. Setting up a firewall has its benefits, but it also has its drawbacks. It can only prevent unauthorized access betwe

WHY FIREWALL IS IMPORTANT IN ORGANIZATION

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The importance of information for the achievement of objectives in organizations, has meant that it is considered in many cases as the most important asset. Due to the value attributed to it, it is subject to various threats such as theft, counterfeiting, fraud, disclosure and destruction, among many others. The risks to which such information is exposed lead to the need to develop trustworthy environments, but achieving this is a complex and multifactorial problem. For this reason, we have developed security approaches such as defense in depth (defense in depth), which aims to protect the information through the application of controls in different layers. One of these layers is the perimeter, the logical boundary that divides the corporate network from other networks, including the Internet. In the so-called perimeter security, the firewall continues to be in force as a protection mechanism for networks and has been an essential element since its appearance 25 years ago. Why Do

TOGETHER IT’S BETTER

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Both firewall and antivirus are security mechanisms designed to protect your system. A firewall is a low-level network security system designed to protect your system and network from malicious damage. Antivirus, on the other hand, is a software utility program designed to protect your computer from insider threats like viruses, malware, spyware, etc. The purpose of a firewall is to restrict any unauthorized access to the system by monitoring network traffic inside and outside the system. It inspects the flow of data from the Internet to the system to decide which should be allowed and which should be restricted. The purpose of an antivirus program is to detect, scan, prevent, and remove harmful programs that can compromise your computer. Typically, a firewall works at the network protocol level to protect public and private networks from unwanted intrusions. Setting up a firewall has its benefits, but it also has its drawbacks. It can only prevent unauthorized access between comput

FIREWALL AND ITS IMPORTANCE

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Having our team protected against threats is important. For this, there are numerous types of software aimed at defending ourselves from possible attacks. Each of them can be focused on a different one. In this article we are going to talk about a firewall, what they are and why it is important to have one installed on our computer. We are going to analyze its main characteristics, and we recommend the best open-source firewall for your local or business network. What is a firewall? The first thing we are going to talk about is what exactly a firewall is. In Spanish, its name is firewall and it basically acts as a wall between the Internet and our computer. It allows us to filter the traffic that enters our devices through the network. We can create white lists of which applications can use the network and send and receive data, for example. We must add that a firewall can be software, which is the program that we can install on our device, or hardware, which is a device that

Antivirus, Firewall and Anti-spyware: an essential Security Trident

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Although many may confuse them, or think that they are the same, because they are used for computer security , the truth is that there are clear differences between antivirus, firewall and anti-spyware. Let's see what the basic concepts are and their differences, since it is likely that you are not aware of the different online security tools that you have at your fingertips. Basic definition of concepts Antivirus is a program that detects the presence of computer viruses (malware that alters the normal functioning of the computer without the user's knowledge or consent) and removes or repairs them. Firewall , is a part of the network or the system that is made to block unauthorized access and allowing those that are. They can be done through software or hardware, and allow greater protection to networks, especially important in companies that have data that must be well protected. Antispyware is a set of tools used to prevent and eliminate Spywares (spies or programs that co

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