User talk:PearlAndrzejewsk
One of the first noted instances was in 1996, when a stockbroker in San Francisco was bombarded with a flood of 25,000 emails that prevented him from using his computer. Symantec argues that such attacks are almost impossible to prevent because they come from legitimate email accounts, and most major mail servers don't even pick them up in spam filters. The attacks can also be carried out automatically with simple scripts at registration forms that aren't protected by CAPTCHA or opt-in email. Today, sophisticated landing pages are built to continuously send automated messages to any valid email address. Email bombs are also still used as a means of harassment. In August 2017, an email bomb shut down ProPublica's email for a day, and secure email provider Tutanota was recently hit with a massive bomb that sent 500,000 newsletters to one of its mailboxes. At best, these attacks are a nuisance. But at their worst, they can cripple networks, shutter operations, and lead to a loss of productivity and revenue.
Most antivirus providers offer a one-month free trial. It should be more than enough to get an idea of whether the product suits you. It is better to pay money for the tools that suit your activities and needs. If you only need an entry-level antivirus with decent protection, choose the cheaper one. The best security suites are capable of both detecting threats and healing infected devices. It is better to pick something other than preinstalled products. Your OS might come with a free one-month trial of a certain antivirus. Once the trial is over, you will get a message asking to upgrade the product. Take time to think and check out some alternatives. Chances are, you will end up finding a better solution. Remember: iOS seldom needs antivirus protection. Some iOS apps claim they can protect your device from viruses. But the fact is - the OS does it all on its own.
Another indicator can also be the website address of the link you’re asked to follow - it will not match the name of the sender. You can see a similar phishing email “supposedly” from Netflix. When you look at the link, you’ll notice a similar scenario. Did you notice the subject line of the above email? “We’re have been hold your account Netflix.” What the heck does that mean? This is not even a real sentence! If the email was from Netflix, do you think they wouldn’t use correct grammar or spelling? The signs of scams are right there for you to see in both of these phishing email examples. What will you do if you have an email sitting in your inbox screaming “REMINDER: Export Documents” or “REMINDER: Invoice” and the email directs you to download the attachment? Maybe you will click on the attachment to realize all hell has broken loose and now your organization has gifs to send In emails go into emergency response mode.
For that reason, some security keys implement more granular signature counters, and good for them, but I consider it rather a waste. When passkeys are synced between machines, they never implement signature counters because that would require that the set of machines maintain a coherent value. So, over time, you’ll probably observe that the majority of credentials don’t have them. Update: Evan let me know that Whisper solved the voice recognition problem. He has a wrapper that records from a microphone and prints the transcription here. Whisper is very impressive and the only caveat is that it sometimes inserts whole fabricated sentences at the end. The words always sort of make sense in context, but there were no sounds that could possibly have caused it. It's always at the very end in my experience, and it's no problem to remove it so, with that noted, you should ignore everything below because Whisper is a better answer.
