A few weeks later, there’s still no good news about the Meltdown and Spectre bugs that affect nearly all processors produced in the last 20 years. Even Intel, the main “investigated” for having commercialized CPUs with the aforementioned flaws, has asked to ignore the updates released to solve the bugs following the numerous reports of…
In taking stock of the past year, two particular themes emerge that have bounced from mouth to mouth and from ear to ear: we are talking about cyber crime with particular reference to the phenomenon of ransomware and GDPR, the European regulation on data protection. Right from the start, it was clear that these two…
The CPU bugs, better known as Meltdown and Spectre, in the last hours have created a certain alarmism as it seems that on the basis of these flaws the first ad-hoc malwares have been identified. According to tests conducted by various sources including researchers, testers and antivirus vendors, as many as 139 malware samples have…
Today we celebrate Safer Internet Day, the International Day of Safe Surfing. An important issue that, as the years go by, is of increasing interest to the young and very young who try their hand at using networked devices. Internationally, particularly in a hundred countries, this day is celebrated with events dedicated to information: a…
To be or not to be social? If we were to carry out a survey asking various types of users what it means to them to belong to a social network like Facebook, we are sure to get very different answers. This happens not only because of the different ages and lifestyles of the users,…
As announced in the previous weeks, after the “flop” of the first corrective measures distributed, Intel has set to work to search for patches that could stem the alarmism aroused around the bugs of its CPUs – the better known Meltdown and Spectre. Specifically, Intel has released a new microcode for Skylake processors that should…
The “Facebook bomb” that exploded a few weeks ago is proving day by day more and more devastating. If until about ten days ago there was talk of the violation of about 50 million personal accounts for political-electoral purposes, now the situation that is leaking out, also from the statements of Mark Zuckerberg, is quite…
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook could no longer shrug its shoulders, or turn a deaf ear, and decided to take action by actively seeking to improve its privacy settings. After a public apology from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook announced new privacy tools. While these should be easy to understand, find and use, they should…
In recent days, there has been much talk about the Facebook case and how the data of 50 million American users have been misused for political purposes. Apart from the purpose, what is particularly astonishing is how the colossus led by Mr. Zuck was not able to manage such a breach of its users’ data…
We wrote just a couple of days ago about the sanction that the Italian Data Protection Authority has imposed on the Rousseau association for the data breach case they were involved in. An episode of violation of privacy that, in our opinion, is destined not to make so much “noise” compared to another similar news…