Posts

Showing posts with the label cybersecurity

WHAT IS EMAIL BOMBARDMENT?

Image
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

10 TIPS TO INCREASE CYBER SECURITY

Image
We must abandon the idea that our personal information and devices do not interest anyone, because they are valuable. Okay, for a cybercriminal, it will be more sweet to access information from a financial institution than to access your accounts. But it turns out that the first is complicated and expensive, while the second is not so much. And, on top of that, it can be replicated thousands, millions of times in an automated way. It is essential to understand this. Protecting yourself from information or money theft is easier than you think. Here Are 10 Tips To Increase Your Cybersecurity: 1 Use More Than One Method of Accessing Important Websites We are simply facing the most comfortable security system to implement and that to make matters worse, it ensures our life online. You may have heard of the second factor of authentication or 2FA. In addition to username and password, to access sensitive sites you have to enter a code generated by an application on your mobile. T

10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH A VIRUS INFECTION ON COMPUTER

Image
It is always necessary to have a computer security protocol to face an infection by computer viruses, malware or whatever we want to call them. Many times, the fact that these phenomena occur reveals a poor security system in the company that must be corrected. If we want to deal with virus infection problems on our computer, we have to take a series of measures to act efficiently and quickly, which of course will include the help of an expert. Here we show you some of the things we recommend doing.   Protocol for dealing with a computer virus infection:   1. Identify what the problem is and its magnitude. It is not the same that a computer virus has infected files on the computer's system that simply the antivirus has blocked a Trojan.   2. Act quickly. Do not be dragging the virus problem, or continue working with that computer. Quarantine it.   3. Inform users. You may have noticed the problem, but the other people who use that computer have not. Inform other

THANOS RANSOMWARE

Image
Ransomware has become one of the most important threats that we can find on the Internet. As we know, it is a type of malware that aims to encrypt our files and systems and later ask for a ransom in return. It really affects both the private users and the private companies. With the passage of time, hackers have also perfected their techniques. In this article, we are going to talk about Thanos, who has become the first ransomware to use the RIPlace technique to avoid detection. Thanos, the first ransomware to use the RIPlace technique It is true that we have more tools and techniques and better quality antivirus to protect ourselves. Systems are better prepared to detect threats like ransomware. The problem is that cybercriminals have also perfected their techniques. They improve the way in which they spread the threat and especially in how they avoid being detected. Thanos is one of the many ransomware that are unfortunately on the network and that compromise the security

Popular posts from this blog

WHAT IS EMAIL BOMBARDMENT?

TESTING THE ANTIVIRUS THAT YOU USE

BOOT SECTOR VIRUS