In [Na-Rh] we developed a method based on positivity in order to characterize the stability of the evolution family corresponding to the nonautonomous Cauchy problem in Hilbert spaces. This method is extended to the study of hyperbolicity of linear skew-products. We also show that exponential dichotomy of a linear skew-product flow is equivalent to the existence of a Hermitian valued solution of some linear Riccati equation.