Being the CEO of a small Danish company that works internationally, I cannot avoid being abroad while some bank transactions are due. Recently, while taking part in a workshop at one of our pilot municipalities in the EU, I had to make a payment using our bank’s internet access. This is a fairly common thing [...]
While the Government here in Italy has announced various changes and plans to reorganize the cybersecurity effort on a national level, it is not clear the practical effect of these proposals. Recently the organization of a new ministry for technological innovation and digitalization with Paola Pisano as its head was announced. Already from the initial [...]
In a previous blog post we discussed the third round of system and dependency analysis workshops conducted in the context of the CS-AWARE project in the municipalities of Larissa and Rome. In this post we would like to discuss in a bit more detail our experiences of the similarities and differences of conducting the workshop [...]
Some weeks before, in that period that Germans call “Sommerloch” (good question how to translate this in English: something like a summer gap might make sense…) we had the opportunity to look to some other projects, and how they support dissemination and uptake through leveraging training activities for potential customers and end users so that [...]
Many web sites and electronic infrastructures of organisations have various security vulnerabilities and are subject to cyberattacks with significant consequences on organisations. Successful cyberattacks lead to consequences which have a direct impact on organisations’ infrastructure, leading to Malfunction of the organisation's electronic services, as well as other sectors. Successful attacks may lead to negative reputation [...]
When aiming to monitor an organization’s security 24/7, apart from breaches and attacks that are detected by existing tools, IT security specialists are interested in potential anomalies that seem transitory within IT systems. Sometimes such anomalies are just a random occurrence of multiple factors due to a pure technical set-up; other times they may have [...]
In October this year we concluded the third round of a series of three one week long systems and dependency analysis workshops. A one week long workshop was held in Larissa and in Rome, with the purpose of identifying potentially malicious behaviour within the services we are monitoring within the CS-AWARE pilot, and how this [...]
Blokada is a program, which sets itself up as a VPN. Think of a VPN like a street your data passes through before entering the highway of the Internet. Blokada looks for traffic to and from addresses related to advertising and tracking in general. When it finds such, it tells Android that this address is [...]
InnoSec participated in the FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) 2018 conference that took place on Crete island, Greece between the 13th and 14th of October 2018. FOSSCOMM is the Panhellenic conference of free and open source software communities, where several open-source software communities participated in it, including the Hellenic Linux User Group [...]
The market for cybersecurity is currently very active, and especially companies that are providing services in the detection and reaction phases of the cybersecurity cycle are a hot commodity right now. According to a recent article in TechCrunch, within one week 4 cybersecurity companies were sold for a total of 1.5 Billion Dollar. So there [...]
