Whether this is the beginning of a real era of strict controls on the application of privacy regulations we can’t tell you, but almost two months before the fateful 25 May 2018 (the day on which companies managing the personal data of their customers will have to prove they are in line with the GDPR)…
After Skylake, it’s time for Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake: all sixth, seventh and eighth generation Core processors now have Intel’s new microcode to fix the Spectre bug. In particular, the microcode refers to the second variant of Spectre: remember that Spectre variant 2 attacks work by persuading the processor’s branch predictor to make a…
We return after some time to talk about the Facebook case and some news about it. It is now well established that the scandal that has hit the Californian company concerns the whole world, not just America, so it is easy to understand the reasons that have prompted the European Union to request a hearing…
After the data breach a few months ago and the ongoing court cases, Facebook continues to be in the eye of the storm once again for its data protection policies: just a few hours after the GDPR came into force, Facebook and Google risk fines amounting to billions of euros. The complaint comes from the…
Wi-Fi, a wireless network possibly connected to the Internet, has quickly become an essential element in the daily use of the vast majority of electronic devices with which we interact. Despite this, people often do not give due importance to how secure a Wi-Fi connection point is, including at home: they completely ignore what the…
Since the early morning hours of today, Tuesday 10 July, those who surf through the network provided by the provider 3 will have encountered some technical problems of fluctuating network and connection problems in general: the Internet connection seems to have been compromised and also the Customer Area application and the technical support itself -the…
The figure of the Data Protection Supervisor has undoubtedly gained in importance in recent months. He can be identified as the supreme judge, the one who supervises the correct application of the privacy legislation – the well-known GDPR – and who takes action in case of non-compliance. On previous occasions when the Garante has been…
Last week, WWDC 2019, the annual conference organised by Apple and dedicated to the presentation of the main innovations introduced, was held in San Jose (California). iOS 13: New features and improvements In this operating system, which is still in the beta phase, the Dark Modefunction has finally been implemented, i.e. a kind of…
The service SOS Alerts from Google Maps is a new feature, implemented within Google Public Alerts, which aims to alert users in case of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. The usefulness of this service is to warn both drivers and authorities in good time. The usefulness of this service lies in the…
Nowadays we hear a lot about 5G and the radical changes it will bring to connectivity. In fact, 5G has very high-level prospects as it promises to connect everything and offer very high bandwidth as well as a low-latency service compared to previous standards. Evolution of connectivity 5G stands for ‘fifth generation‘, an evolutionof…