Last Updated on May 24, 2015

Actually this post is nearly a couple of weeks in delay (last week I was skiing in at the Italian Dolomites!!). (Un)fortunately now that I am back to home (and to work), I have choosen this Friday The 13th, while preparing my traditional Cyber Attacks Master Index for the first half of January 2012, to give a quick look to the past year in terms of my blogging activity in order to discover which where the posts which collected most views (more than 60,000 in total), of course excluding the home page.

As you will easily notice the articles related to cyber attack statistics dominate the Top 10. For sure it is not a coincidence that some of the included articles were also quoted by leading security firms such as Kaspersky and IBM). Of course, for a correct interpretation of the chart you should also consider the period of the year in which each article was written (before the article is written, greater is the number of potential readers) and also the fact that the master index is continuously updated.

Yes, the post dedicated to Android Malware ranked undoubtely at number 1 (it even deserved a mention on Engadget) but also the Cyber Attacks Master index “performed well” even if at a great distance (but it was destined for a more professional audience) being quoted in many information security forums.

At rank number 3 there is a summer post dedicated to cyber attacks targeting contractors (clearly it is updated to August and could not include STRATFOR), which, actually a surprise for me, gained an unexpected attention under the Dog Days (a prolific period for blogging).

Clearly my readers have shown a great interest for security statistics, since in order to find a more technical article we have to browse the chart until number 4 with my post dedicated to TCP Split Handshake. In that circumstance I forced myself to investigate the question since when I first stumbled upon it after the NSS report (and the consequent turmoil) I must confess I had never heard about it.

Again statistics at ranks number 5, 6, and 7, until number 8 which is hold by a post dedicated to a scam targeting Twitter and mobile users. At that time the scam lured so many victims, who consequently “googled” the phrase “This made me laugh so hard when i saw this about you lol” (the symptom of the scam) and were hence redirected to that article.

A particular mention is also deserved by the Social Espionage at number 9, dealing with the threats hidden behind social networks: the Social Network Poisoning seen from the perspective of several resounding examples such as Primoris Era and Robin Sage.

In any case, forgive me if I could not do it before, I really would like to say thank you to all the Information Security Professionals who inspired my work (which I decided to quote in a very special manner)…

But most of all I want to say thank you to all the readers who stumbled upon my blog and decided to keep on reading (and retweeting) the articles regularly. Hope they will find in 2012 the same level of interest shown in the past year. Since it is not so easy to conciliate my professional and personal life with my blogging activity (thanks to my wife Romina for her patience), their appreciation is the scope of my work and a crucial driver to improve the level of quality…