Social engineering: conoscerlo per difendersi Il social engineering è una tecnica di attacco cyber che colpisce direttamente i dipendenti di un’organizzazione. L’Osservatorio Cybersecurity & Data Protection della POLIMI School of Management ha pubblicato un approfondimento sull’ingegneria sociale. Questo attacco informatico non sfrutta le falle dei sistemi informatici, ma manipola le persone sfruttando leve psicologiche e…
Una violazione di sicurezza che comporta (accidentalmente o in modo illecito) la distruzione, la perdita, la modifica, la divulgazione non autorizzata o l’accesso ai dati personali trasmessi, conservati o comunque trattati. Questo è il data breach, ossia la violazione dei dati personali: una piaga tutta contemporanea che, ai tempi della clamorosa accelerazione digitale, sta mettendo…
The consensus towards the latest operating system from the house of Microsoft continues to grow: according to the data presented by the latest report from NetMarketShare in January 2017, the market share of Windows 10 has exceeded 25%. A percentage point more than in the previous month: certainly the Christmas period with the sale of…
Ask for information We are now less than a year away from the effective implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is intended to replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Companies will have until May 25, 2018 to regularize, exceeded this date the anomalies found will lead to fines of up to 20…
Ask for information Approximately nine months separate us from the entry into force of the GDPR, the new European regulation on the protection of personal data, yet the awareness of organizations/companies about this change is still very low. According to a survey conducted by NTT Security, the assumption is that many business executives around the…
Ask for information The EU Regulation no. 2016/679, better known as GDPR, has brought with it many innovations including the introduction of the DPO – Data Protection Officer, i.e. a point of connection between the owner and manager on the one hand and the Supervisory Authority on the other. This is a real professional figure…
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…
The Nordic countries are well known for being at the forefront of work management and regulation, but in our country we are still tied to rather obsolete, limiting and exhausting concepts. According to the common understanding, work is the activity that takes up at least eight hours a day, that marks our days and that…
Following the entry into force of the GDPR, you will have noticed that your email inbox is constantly bombarded with messages of an informative nature and with requests for authorisation to use personal data: “We have updated our privacy policy” are the words of most of these messages, in which the recipient’s silence is tantamount…
From words to deeds: a few months after the rumours created by the issue of international importance, better known as the ‘Cambridge Analytica scandal’, the first fine has arrived for Facebook. It was the British who decreed the sanction, announcing a preliminary fine of 500,000 pounds (565,000 euros), i.e. the maximum amount allowed; the fault…