by simona derubis | Dec 22, 2023
The human factor is at the heart of the incident. There is still a lot to do on the training front The Italian State Mint was caught out because of a typical Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack. Some skilled scammer managed to wangle 3 million euros from the...
by simona derubis | Dec 18, 2023
Password: the new guidelines of the National Cybersecurity Agency and the Italian Data Protection Authority. When we were children, we used “passwords” in our games, imitating scenes from films or re-enacting fairy tales of places that only a select few...
by simona derubis | Dec 11, 2023
Thinking, Fast and Slow “If you care about being thought credible, do not use complex language where simpler language will do”. Oppenheimer Daniel M. Oppenheimer, a psychologist and professor at Princeton University, writes this illuminating definition...
by simona derubis | Nov 17, 2023
Let’s put ourselves for a moment in the shoes of Julius Caesar, the great leader of Ancient Rome, and then imagine that we have to send secret messages across enemy territory while making sure that their contents do not fall into the wrong hands. We live in an...
