Activities

13th December 2021

Workshop on Security Frameworks "Cybersecurity needs abstract thinking"

Theory and practice, same old fellas. Can your skillset ferry you back and forth the fen between them? Why bother?! You’d better do, for the same reasons why a construction engineer ought to try out working as a builder, and a top notch builder ought to get to grips with some engineering principles...

30th April 2021

Seminary - Building a new form of Word Embeddings using social ontological relations for legal relations disambiguation

Dr Ahmed Izzidien is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. His area of research is in artificial intelligence - machine learning for social values. He is also a Research Associate at Hughes Hall at Cambridge. He is the recipient of a Horizon 2020 - NGI Trust Award, an EPSRC & CASE Award (PhD) and EPSRC Award (MSc).

9th December 2020

Workshop on Security Frameworks "Cybersecuritytians exceed nerds"

No, we Cybersecuritytians have not given up on our rooted quest to tamper with computers and try and twist the science behind them. Rather, we have grown aware that making computers "secure" demands us to come to terms also with everything *around* our exciting devices....

10th June 2020

CyberChallenge 2020

CyberChallenge.IT is the first Italian training program in cybersecurity for high-school and undergraduate students. The universities involved in the project actively participate with their faculty members to the admission tests and the educational path. The project provides also an opportunity....

4th December 2019

Workshop on Security Frameworks "Away from People yet at the Heart of their Privacy"

Consent, limitation, erasure, portability and various other rights. User is central and must be facilitated in the exercise of their rights. Then, just build a very informative and truly user-friendly control panel and you're sorted? Negative, those are obvious chores, not the core of data protection....

17th June 2019

Capture the Flag 2019

Sixth in the series of games based on attack and defense of a machine. The Roastbuttons and Jellyhinge have formed from those attending Internet Security, who will clash to the sound of bruteforcing and live patching....

12th June 2019

Hardening Five

Hardening five, fifth in the series of games centered on the hardening of a machine. Four Internet Security students will compete on SeLinux, AppArmor, Grsecurity and Tomoyo Linux hardening systems....

29th May 2019

Seminary - Candy Cream: haCking infotAiNment AnDroid sYstems to Command instRument clustEr via cAn data fraMe

We present CANDY CREAM, an attack made of two parts: CANDY aiming at exploiting a vulnerability exposed by an infotainment system based on Android operating system connected to the vehicle's CAN bus network....

10th December 2018

Workshop on Security Frameworks "Informatics IS Cybersecurity"

Informatics and Cybersecurity rhyme with bitcoin and the blockchain. While Informatics (Computer Science for old-timers!) blossomed by seizing data from their paper registries and re-implanting them on monitors and keyboards, Cybersecurity has been expanding the flowering meadows massively. ....

10th December 2018

Hardening Four

On the hardening of systems. UNICT students will be protagonists, showing vulnerabilities, exploits and fixes on real systems such as domestic cameras. In addition, there will also be a part concerning social engineering. You are invited to participate.

15th June 2018

Capture the Flag 2018

Computer Science and Computer Engineering students are collaborating in various teams. The Crunchyfans and Umamipads will compete in the attack and defense of palio machines on a distributed system programmed by the Toughwafers. Appropriate fair play rules have been written and the victory will....

21th May 2018

Seminary - Safety and Privacy in Intelligent Transport Systems

Dr. Ilaria Matteucci of CNR Pisa will hold a seminar on issues of Safety and Privacy in Intelligent Transport Systems, automotive security and automotive field opportunities.

14th May 2018

Seminary - Cryptocurrencies and blockchains

Prof. Antonio Mario Caruso of University of Lecce will hold a seminar on cryptocurrencies and blockchains.