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Olicyber: the future of Italian cybersecurity is here!

Olicyber: the future of Italian cybersecurity is here!

Will the curriculum of Italian pupils soon include hacking? There is a chance. Italy is organizing its first CyberOlimpics, Olicyber, organised by CINI and TeamItaly, the Italian white hackers team. The organizing committee means to convey the value and the culture of cybersecurity among younger generations. Hopefully, this initiative will promote the selection and the  training of future and talented cybersecurity professionals. Olicyber: what is it? Disciplines of the Cyber Olympics include Web Security, Cryptography, Sofware Security, and Network Security. These special athletes are the pupils of Italian high-school. An additional merit of OliCyber is that the organizers will select the participants without discrimination, especially ensuring gender equality. Participation is […]

SolarWinds Attack: Italy activates the Cyber ​​Security Nucleus

SolarWinds Attack: Italy activates the Cyber ​​Security Nucleus

Following a tampering with a number of SolarWinds Orion platform updates in March, hackers have infiltrated the networks and computer systems of government and private entities around the world by spying on their moves and, in some cases, stealing highly sensitive data assets. The attack has also affected our country, unfortunately. From the early stages of the discovery, Italy activated the Cyber ​​Security Nucleus, the collegiate body entrusted with the task of managing cyber incidents that could have a potential impact on national security. The Cyber Security Nucleus What is this? According to the current legislation that regulates the activities of the Information Security Department (DIS) of the Presidency of […]

Olivetti P101: an Italian success

Olivetti P101: an Italian success

The Olivetti “Program 101” computer (P101), presented in 1965, is considered by some to be the first “personal computer” in history, as it had all the main features of large computers of the time, but its size allowed it to be used comfortably on your desk, so much so that it was then called “desktop computer”. The success of the P101 The P101 was a huge commercial success. The P101 wanted to be a consumer product capable of meeting the working needs of the highest possible number of people. Presented at the New York fair in ’65, it had sold over 44,000 copies all over the world in just a […]

Unknown threat actor is using Agent Tesla variants against Oil&Gas and Energy Sector

Unknown threat actor is using Agent Tesla variants against Oil&Gas and Energy Sector

On 02/07/2019, Telsy TRT catched a new malware variant belonging to Agent Tesla family addressed to companies operating in the Energy and Oil&Gas sector. Among these organizations, Telsy identifies a very large italian company with a strong international presence, especially in the UAE area. Attack Vector As in many cases we usually observe, the main attack vector used for spreading the malicious payload is email. In this case, we were able to collect some malicious messages sent by threat actor to different targets; these messages are oriented to spoof the identity of what we belive to be a real person involved in engineering field in UAE area. Indeed, we believe […]

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