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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

SMISHING: BE AWARE OF IT

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Technology makes life easier for us. We just have to see how mobile phones have become an indispensable device in our day to day. However, we must be attentive to its use, because cybercriminals adapt to these advances with new techniques. One of the most recent is smishing, do you know what it is and how to detect it? What is smishing: SMS + phishing? The smishing is the use of methods of deception through SMS or text messaging for mobile user's personal information and making fraudulent use of it. The difference from phishing is the means by which the scam is done; in phishing it is through e-mail and in smishing it is done with SMS. It is not a new phenomenon, because it first appeared in 2008, but now it has increased thanks to the use of messaging applications such as WhatsApp.   The phishing, the smishing and vishing are three types of widespread fraud. The criminals pretend to be another person, so that the victim shares with them passwords or card details. Learn to

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