Spain at the head of the countries that receive most "spam"
18/11/2021Once againt, the latest Kaspersky report points Spain, for the seventh consecutive quarter, as the country where users receive more malicious email. According to the report by the IT security company, Spain has received 9.55% of the world's total of this type of attack during the months of July, August and September, which means an increase of one point compared to the previous quarter. In the ranking of countries that receive most “spam”, Spain is followed by Russia, with 6.52% of attacks, Italy with 5.47%, Brazil with 5.37% and Mexico with 4. 69%. According to this same report, the main origin of these malicious emails is Russia, 24.9%, followed by Germany, 14.19% and China, 10.31%.The large amount of these “spam” emails during this last quarter have been related to “phishing” pages
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DuckDuckGo will offer their temporary or disposable mail service free
14/09/2022After launching the beta version of the new temporary or disposable mail service, 'Email Protection', DuckDuckGo has announced that once tested it is now available free for all users. 'Email Protection' is presented as a solution to be able to have a second 'e-mail' address to use in subscriptions and pages likely to send ‘spam'. Available from the DuckDuckGo mobile app and browsers, the service incorporates privacy protections against link tracking and smart encryption against unencrypted links, and features such as direct response. The accounts that are created through 'Email Protection' as a secondary email will contain the domain @duck.com and among the recommended uses proposed by DuckDuckGo are free trials or registration in services that usually send advertising or spam.
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