Cyber wars: virtual attacks for real dameges.
Cyber wars: virtual attacks for real damages. In this article it’s highlighted, according Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee, how nations are hiring Cybermercenaries to launch attacks against their enemies. In a globalized world, where everything it’s connected and available on line, it’s “quite easy” to attack locally: preferred targets are financial institutions and energy companies. A Cyber war is a new style of attack, avoiding a real war but being able to create huge real damages! In this scenery, where the enemy remains invisible and hard to find ( but not impossible! ), we see other actions performed in the market to attack private companies: to steal valuable information and secrets to compete...
Europe: from sweet dream to live nightmare (battle of privacy vs OTT)
Europe: from sweet dream to live nightmare (battle of privacy vs OTT) In this article written in the Guardian, it’s evident as is changing the shared approach of Europe, towards OTT. It’s very strange ascertain that ONLY now, all the institutions and authorities realize what the OTT have made, in the last 15 years!!!!!!! Just like waking up from a sweet dreams and realize to live in a nightmare…while , who was called to defend and to protect european citizens and companies knew very very very well what was going on! It’s so easy to be the best when the competitive advantages are coming from a strategy based on cheating , stealing data and tax evasion!!! But trying to be as balanced as possible, it’s even true that if the OTT have...
Microsoft XBox One: il cavallo di troia per espugnare la TV nel salotto
Microsoft XBox One: il cavallo di troia per espugnare la TV nel salotto In questo articolo si evidenzia la strategia di Microsoft per conquistare un terreno ancora vergine e di esclusiva competenza dei classici braodcaster : the TV in the living room. Il cavallo di troia è una consolle di gioco. Altri hanno iniziato proponendo smart TV. Altri ancora set top box dedicati e chiusi… insomma la fortezza è assediata e gli attachi sono multipli e convergenti verso una meta unica: la pubblicità da proporre attraverso la TV. In questo frangente, dove si parla quasi esclusivamente di pubblicità su strumenti mobili e si constata la grande crescita di tale segmento, le big ICT e soprattutto gli OTT hanno messo gli occhi e vorrebbero mettere le mani sul lucroso mercato...
L’effetto Snowden (PRISM e Datagate): typewriters instead of the PC to the Russian secret service
L’effetto Snowden (PRISM e Datagate): typewriters instead of the PC to the Russian secret service , seems to bring a smile to a gleaning, but it speaks volumes about the state of things. Electronic instruments are not considered safe. But this, actually, is not new. All those who work in the field, know that no electronic system is secure 100%. He knows something that Sony has over person 27 million player accounts of playstation, where stored data is also on the cards credito.Ne know anything at banks, who find themselves more and more confronted with credit card fraud clonate.Ne know something the military establishment where espionage is ...
Internet of Thigs: the next big challenge.
Internet of Thigs: the next big challenge. In this article there is a sharable point of view regarding Internet of Things : it has a huge potentials, but will be big when it will hit the house market where are many electronic devices and many others, today only mechanical, will be married in the new communication environment. The challenge is to let the electronic devices be involved in a network where a tangible added value can be sold to potential customers. Will be the way the information will be supplied, the function of utility, and the consequences in terms of quality life enhancement reached through the new services supplied. IoT it’s a paradigm useful for advanced concept of home automation. Home automation itself has a value when it helps the final...
Cloud: nuovole horizon! ( concern about the hidden costs )
Cloud: nuovole horizon! ( concern about the hidden costs ) Prendo spunto da questo interessante articolo di Laura Del Rosario su EDP. It is reported that the 79% CIO is concerned about the hidden costs of the solutions in the Cloud as a result of : 1) una esperianze finale per l’utlizzatore scarsa dovuta a colli di bottiglia nelle prestazioni correlati principalmente alla velocità della rete ( and thus the reactivity of the pages are viewed, and Reactivity of the input entered ), 2) il correlato depauperamento della percezione del marchio e della sua qualità con ricadute pesanti sulla fedeltà del clienti 3) la perdita di fatturato scaturente dalle scarse disponibilità, performance, reattività e capacità di risoluzione dei problemi in...
