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Insider Threat Awareness: the people-centric path to cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is surely a matter of sophisticated software and technology, but also procedures and proper training are vital to prevent often costly – both financially and reputationally – security incidents....

Machine Learning: why is vital for cybersecurity

Machine learning is becoming more vital than ever in today’s – and tomorrow’s -cybersecurity. Being a subset of AI, machine learning consists of the techniques that enable computers to figure...

Firmware security: why it matters

While securing other critical components of their infrastructure such as hardware and software, businesses often neglect firmware security. Being the basic core of all its hardware stuff, an organization is...

FragAttacks: new Wi-Fi vulnerabilities found!

A few days ago, a Belgian security researcher,  Mathy Vanhoef, has found, and named as “FragAttacks (fragmentation and aggregation attacks)”, a dozen of unknown security flows affecting Wi-Fi devices. Within radio range...

Vulnerability Assessment: an overview of a crucial cybersecurity task

Vulnerability assessment is a task in delivering an effective cybersecurity strategy in both corporate and public sectors. It is vital to bring about risk awareness, and it is the very...

Cybersecurity analysts: what they do and why their work is vital

Cybersecurity analysts are the core of an organization’s security, private and public alike. They have a vital task: ensuring that their IT assets are secure and protect them from violations...

Penetration testing: what it is and why it is important

Penetration Testing (Pen Test) refers to the activity of systematically attempting to violate a vulnerable component of a system to discover the security breaches in it through a simulated attack....

Cloud: what is it and its key advantages

Cloud is a metaphor indicating a computing model where an internet connection enables a network of servers, applications, storage, and other development tools. Companies around the world use it to...

Cybersecurity career: 4 reasons to consider it

Pursuing a career in cybersecurity can be tempting. Figures show that this industry tends to have a zero unemployment rate. Nowadays, the labor market requires cybersecurity skills more than ever....

Cyberattacks: a matter of war or disruption?

Cyberattacks are a threat to national security. However, describing them as war is highly problematic. Critics of this stance often argue that armed conflict has been becoming virtual. They say...

Smart working: how to mitigate cyber risks

Smart working is a  fertile ground for cyber threats and criminals. As steps to counter the coronavirus outbreak take effect, millions of workers worldwide have been sent home with their...

Cybercrime: how can we all deal with it?

One of the biggest cybersecurity dilemmas is the following: “Can we avoid cybercrime?” After all, online identity theft and fraud, hackers, ransomware cyber-attacks, phishing, and other scams are threats to...

VPN: a must-have tool for privacy and security

VPN (Virtual Private Network) service gives you online privacy, anonymity, and security by creating a private network from a public internet connection. By using it, businesses can securely connect users...

SOC: what it is and how it operates

SOC or Security Operations Center – not to be confused with SoC (“System on a Chip) – is the core component of a serious business security strategy. Simply put, a...

Anonymous: what to know about a worldwide hacking group

Anonymous is the most famous hacktivist group in the world. It gained international attention when it attacked the Church of Scientology’s website in 2008. As an informal group without a...

Phishing: how to detect one of the subtlest online threats

Phishing is one of the subtlest threats in the dark world of cyber threats. The world has been witnessing a surge in phishing attacks since the pandemic outbreak. It may...

Olicyber: the future of Italian cybersecurity is here!

Will the curriculum of Italian pupils soon include hacking? There is a chance. Italy is organizing its first CyberOlimpics, Olicyber, organized by CINI and TeamItaly, the Italian white hackers’ team....

Cyberwarfare and national economies

Cyberwarfare is not just a standard threat in the dark woods of cyber threats. It is much more serious than that. It is no secret that big and key strategic...

Law enforcement agencies from the several EU countries and the UK have dismantled the notorious malware Emotet. The takedown of this malicious botnet happened on Tuesday, 26th January. Emotet is...

Sunburst: the attack that shook the world

Cyber analysts recently discovered the “Sunburst” attack malware, which triggered a series of cyber-espionage attacks that began in the spring of 2020. The attack involved thousands of public administrations, private...

Take a hacker seriously: the story of Raphael Grey

You will take a hacker seriously after reading the story of Raphael Grey. Raphael Grey managed to hack several e-commerce sites, accessing the customers’ credit card data for a month...

Fake vaccines online: beware of scams

The NAS Carabinieri blocked two sites advertising and offering fake vaccines for COVID-19 and flu. In the latter case, subject to the obligation of medical prescription and sold only in...

AiR-ViBeR: the hack that exploits PC fans

Cyber ​​risks, as we know, have always been around the corner. They are insidious and can even silently affect the data of companies and individuals quite easily, if not adequately...

SolarWinds Attack: Italy activates the Cyber ​​Security Nucleus

Following a tampering with a number of SolarWinds Orion platform updates in March, hackers have infiltrated the networks and computer systems of government and private entities around the world by...

COVID-19 vaccine: beware of phishing

Have you received a strange e-mail about COVID-19, offering you various solutions to buy an under-the-counter vaccine currently in distribution? Think twice before clicking on any link. In addition to...

Spyware – an almost invisible threat

Is your PC or mobile phone not as fast as it used to be? Has your battery started lasting less and less, despite its limited state of deterioration? Have you...

The guy who hacked Twitter: “Kirk” and the human factor

It was a 17-year-old hacker who managed to persuade some Twitter employees that he was a collaborator of the technology department who needed the credentials to log into the customer...

Business data loss: a nightmare for companies

Business data loss can be detrimental for businesses. Organizations – from small to medium-large – depend on technology when it comes to managing business operations and data storage. Unfortunately, technology...

Is SOCaaS useful for companies? Google Chronicle as an effective and advantageous SOCaaS service

Today, we present a paper that explains the convenience of adopting a SOCaaS service for businesses and organizations. The correct management of IT infrastructures is essential to guarantee any organization’s...

Cyber threats linked to COVID

Has the Coronavirus had negative effects on the state of global cybersecurity? Unfortunately, yes. In the past few hours, there has been a series of cyber-attacks against the Italian pharmaceutical...

Augmented and Virtual Reality: what are the privacy risks?

Last month, Nintendo released a new video game in the popular Super Mario Kart saga. The game is part of a new category of Toys-to-life, a video game genre that...

The double extortion technique: the Campari case

In recent weeks the Campari group has suffered a serious ransomware attack of the so-called “double extortion” technique. The damage would amount to two terabytes of stolen data, with attached...

Cybersecurity and the implementation of smart working

Faced with the unexpected health crisis, institutions and companies around the world are trying to facilitate the implementation of smart working through the dispersion of adequate rules and procedures. The...

Cybersecurity’s weakest link: the human factor

The latest studies are further confirming a fact that, although already known, is still too often ignored: the human factor is the greatest source of risk for companies’ IT security....

Cloud, Edge Computing and the future of cybersecurity

Cloud Computing is today a fully consolidated and still expanding reality, but the exponential development of IoT and 5G technology is increasingly attracting attention to Edge computing, a new distributed...

Cyber war: the current scenario

The modern hybrid war Lately we hear more and more often about “hybrid” or “asymmetric” war, terms intended to explain a military strategy that mixes conventional war, irregular war and...

How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will change the world of cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools could substantially help in the fight against cybercrime. But even these technologies can’t guarantee absolute security, and they could even be exploited...

Cyber Security: come gestire le minacce nelle comunicazioni mobili

Il 7 aprile 2020 Telsy ha partecipato ufficialmente al webinar – Cyber Security: come gestire le minacce nelle comunicazioni mobili – organizzato da Samsung Electronics Italia e FPA -FORUM PA....

Telsy Cyber Security Awareness – Stay cyber safe at home

Il responsabile della divisone di Cyber Security e Threat Intelligence di Telsy, Emanuele De Lucia, ha stilato un documento rivolto all’utenza comune utile ad accrescere la consapevolezza dei rischi del...

Strengthen Android privacy and security via Telsy free secure DNS over TLS

Starting from Android 9 Pie (https://www.android.com/versions/pie-9-0/ ), Google has released some interesting features related to the tuning of its mobile operating system and in particular the possibility of modifying some...

A Password is not a Pass-Word

From bank accounts to entertainment, our virtual life is wider than ever, and with the 4th industrial revolution is only meant to grow at an exponential rate. Within this redefined...

How well does my car know me?

It is certain that our cell phones and electronic devices collect a wide variety of data about us. On top of the new technologies to which we expose our home...

Tamper detection technologies: it takes a thief to catch a thief

Tamper detection is a concept already present in our everyday life, even when we are not aware that it can be called by that name, or even that it is...

Think differently, secure differently

In the new evolving communication landscape, cyber threats do not just target things, objects, or devices. First and foremost, cyberattacks target people and leverage on user’s and programmer’s psychology. On...

New threats, new solutions: fighting insecurity with Machine Learning

The landscape of possible cyberthreats is rapidly changing, exploiting vulnerabilities in new technologies, systematically jeopardizing wide and multifaceted systems, and threatening the security of an ever increasing amount of information....

Foreseeing what is next: the rise of 5G technologies

At the end of the 17th century, the French artist Jean-Marc Côté was commissioned some illustrations about en l’an 2000. Already back then, life in the 2000 was pictured as...

Make the Internet a Secure++ Word – The Internet Service Provider Role

“The current world of telematic communications appears as fast-changing environment. The actors of this ecosystems are represented by billions of nodes that, every day, globally transmit a huge amount of...

Hacking the Artificial Intelligence

The enemies of the future will not necessarily need bombs, missiles or atomic weapons to instil terror in civilian populations. They will need only some tape, scissors and good practical...