Google has put itself at the service of its vast public by descending into the dark web with the aim of understanding how hackers act and, in response to such illegal activity, identifying the security measures to be taken. Not a day goes by when new security threats are discovered; the most common are traced…
Some time ago we discussed in our blog the results of a survey conducted on 60 countries in the world to measure their degree of digitization over the period 2008-2015 (see the article “Measuring digitization, levels reached and impetus for investment“). The results of this survey produced a map in which the countries involved were…
From the analysis of the ranking compiled by the Global Innovation Index for 2017, we learned positive news for our country which, although overall it ranks 29th (out of 127 total), observing the parameters examined in detail, rather positive notes emerge. One of these involves the ICT sector. A trend confirmed by the data presented…
So far, we have dealt with the topic of the new European privacy regulation, aka GDPR, from the “top” trying to shed light on what is provided for by the legislation in question. A regulation that, in spite of the reduced timeframe for complying with it, is still unknown to most people or is not…
A well-known advertisement of a few years ago said that “at Christmas we are all better” and this slogan is now used far and wide to justify actions of unusual goodness conducted at this time of year … but this does not necessarily mean to be chickens! It is at this time that malicious people…
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new malware with special features, i.e. it is equipped with several modules offering an almost unlimited number of malicious features, from cryptocurrency mining to DDoS attacks. And given its modular architecture, it seems that more functionality can be added. So let’s get to know Loapibetter. Compared to a…
From the very beginning, it was assumed that North Korea was involved in the spread of the WannaCry cyberattack last May, associating it for some characteristics to a malicious code already used a couple of years ago by a hacker group, Lazarus, believed to be linked to the government of the eastern country. Now months…
Like every year, when we approach the end it is normal to draw conclusions about what has been: we do it in our personal lives and we do it professionally, as individuals or as companies. It’s the period in which rankings of all kinds are raging on the web; as operators in the ICT field…
We continue to take stock of this 2017 by staying on a topic that is particularly close to our hearts, which is cybersecurity. A few months ago we already anticipated that, most likely, the year that is about to end will be remembered in the IT field for two important events/topics: cybercrime and GDPR. Regarding…
With the same punctuality of the most renowned “horoscopes” that go crazy on TV, radio and newspapers in these last days of the year, even in the field of cybersecurity, after pulling the files of the year just passedwe move on to present what the coming year might hold for us. We saw in yesterday’s…