Microsofttakes security very seriously. The Microsoft Azureplatform allows subscribers to use their own cloud applications and services by leveraging a wide range of security-focused tools and features. Subscription to the platform takes place through a cloud service provider (CSP), which provides cloud-based storage, application, infrastructure or platform services. Among the tasks of a provider is…
Did you know that in 2020 Italy was the 3° most affected country in the world by malware, the 2° hit by ransomware and ranks 24th among the countries analyzed for vulnerability for cybercrime? Covid-19 has been damaging from the users point of view, who have received numerous attacks, but has increased several initiatives aimed…
Ransomware is a problem that continues to plague organizations. A survey in which several companies in 30 countries participated found that more than a third had experienced a ransomware attack in the past 12 months. These attacks are characterized by an increasing level of complexity and are carried out by hackers who are more and…
The antivirus software market offers a lot of possibilities: simple or more sophisticated solutions, free or paid, more or less performing. To disentangle ourselves from such a choice, laboratory tests come to our aid. However, a premise is in order: currently the Windows 10 operating system (and previously Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP) has…
We have talked on other occasions about how unpleasant it is to have to deal with data loss as a result of a hacker attack and how some types of these viruses even demand a cash ransom (cryptolocker infections have become more than well-known). Not to mention the online financial crimes-fraud, identity theft, and hacking-that…
On February 7, the World Day for Internet Safety was established: a way to raise awareness and bring out how little the web is safe with a focus on the youngest. This is an initiative shared by a hundred countries around the world. In Italy the project is coordinated by the Generazioni Connesse portal which…
It was presented last February 22 the the Clusit Report 2017 on ICT security in Italy, the result of the work of a hundred experts and with the contribution of public and private entities that have shared with Clusit– the Italian Association for Information Security -information, data and their own experiences in the field. The…
A new security measure has been presented by Google for account access verification: it is a system called Invisible reCAPTCHA able to identify, through specific algorithms managed by an artificial intelligence, a human through the analysis of his online behavior, from mouse movements to IP address. But let’s see the reasons that led to this…
We’ve found ourselves talking about safety in a number of circumstances, or rather, our work starts right there. What should be a basic aspect in the use of ICT tools is often underestimated by end users, whether they are companies or individuals. A situation that should be of particular concern if we consider that the…
It is curious to see how mobile devices, especially smartphones, are replacing PCs day after day for basic operations such as checking email, but at the same time the same attention is not given to these devices in terms of protection that would be given to a computer. The smartphone is the equivalent of our…