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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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PHISHING IS LIKE FISHING

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How many times have you checked your email and come across an alert message from your bank or another company warning you, for example, that your account is in danger of being closed? "Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the growth in online purchases made these days to collect personal and banking information from the most naive buyers". And while these ads often look convincing, they are almost always phishing scams. If you are not familiar with this term, do not worry, in this article we explain it to you. Phishing is one of the most common crimes, within cybercrime. This crime uses fraud and deception to manipulate its victims by posing as well-known or trusted companies so that users provide their data. HOW TO RECOGNIZE A PHISHING ATTACK? Nowadays, most attacks are initiated through email, but they can also be by SMS, instant messages on your social networks, and even phone calls. And here you will ask yourself “How can I know if I am being the victim of an at
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WAYS OF RECOGNIZING IDENTITY THEFT SCAMS

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Generally, people suffer identity theft because they have disclosed certain personal information. Dishonest people are sometimes called "scammers". You can avoid identity theft scams by recognizing their most common forms: Identity theft (Phishing) A common type of identity theft scam occurs through email. This is called phishing. An online scammer will send you an email posing as a real organization. It will try in many ways to get you to provide your personal information. They may threaten you and tell you that you will not be able to access your account if you do not confirm your bank account number. Other fraudulent emails offer money if you provide your account information. Some will ask you to reconfirm your payment details for an order that you may (or may not) have placed. Be very careful with these emails. Scammers are smart and will often use identical logos from well-known companies. Never click a link in an email unless you recognize and trust the sender. Yo
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HOW TO DO WORK FROM HOME SAFELY WITHOUT GETTING MISLEADED BY FRAUDS?

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Phishing remains the preferred method of cybercrime. According to the 2019 Phishing and Fraud Report, carried out by the F5 Networks research center, in the United States, phishing represents 21% of the methods used by attackers because it is easy and it works. Attackers don't have to worry about hacking into a firewall, finding a zero-day exploit, cracking an encryption; the hardest part is slipping a good trick into the email to get people to click and create a fake site to land on. And to make the deception more effective, the malicious sites to which the emails are redirected are usually copycats of popular brands or platforms. How to avoid being misled by fraud while working from home or simply while being distracted by current events? Especially during fast-paced and uncertain events, criminals count on distractions. They are taking advantage of it to sneak into a scam. Whether it's leveraging the increased volume of online shopping, the increased use of online ed
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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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