2024

Mine the Matrix: Cybersecurity competition

Mine the matrix is a two-round, individual CTF dedicated to Europe’s cybersec enthusiasts, hosted by Hack the Box, organized and sponsored by Bending Spoons. Prizes and expenses paid. More information here.

Hackathon: tech for Humans – Vargroup 2024

Hotel Litoraneo Rimini, October 2-4. The organizers inform that hackathon is free and the costs of lodging, lunches and participation of accompanying events are covered by the sponsors. More information about the hackathon here.

Seminar: Passione Smartphone: tra Necessità e Dipendenza

May 22nd, 2024, 17:00; Aula Magna Storica della Sapienza, via Curtatone e Montanara, Pisa. Speaker: Juan Carlos de Martin (Politecnico di Torino), autore del libro “Contro lo Smartphone. Per una Tecnologia più Democratica”, dialoga con Ciro Conversano, docente di Psicologia Generale presso l’Università di Pisa. MODERATRICE: Francesca Franceschi, Giornalista Scientifica di 50 Canale

Seminar of ST Microelectronics: Low-power radio and power line communication design for the Internet of Things

May 17, 14:00-16:00, Aula Riunioni (ground floor), Department of Information Engineering, via Caruso 16, Pisa. More information here.EUDIS Hackaton for digital innovation of UE Defense

May 31st-June 2nd, viale Sarca 226 Milano and online. More information here: https://new.ultrahack.org/hackathons/eudis-hackathon-2024-italy

Free Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) online course

The course is offered by Ghent University (Belgium), Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany) and Tech Against Terrorism (UK) and it is Funded by the European Union. Access the course here

Conversazione con Roberto Baldoni – Dialogo sulla sovranità digitale: presentazione del libro: “Charting Digital Sovereignty: a Survival Playbook”

Wednesday 20th, 2024 at 17:00, Auditorium Centro Congressi benedettine, Piazza San Paolo Ripa D’Arno 16. Roberto Baldoni è stato Direttore Generale dell’Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale dal 2021 al 2023, dopo aver ricoperto il ruolo di Vice Direttore Generale dell’intelligence italiana per quattro anni. Nei suoi oltre due decenni di esperienza come professore ordinario di Ingegneria Informatica presso la Sapienza Università di Roma ha contribuito significativamente alla crescita del settore italiano ed europeo della cybersecurity. Tra i suoi contributi non scientifici rilevanti figurano la progettazione della nuova architettura italiana di cybersecurity, la legge sul “Perimetro di sicurezza nazionale cyber” e la Strategia italiana di cybersecurity per il periodo 2022-2026.

Paper on post-quantum cryptography from a thesis in Cybersecurity

a derived from a thesis of a Cybersecurity student just appeared on the prestigious IEEE Access journal. The paper can be downloaded here.

Opening of Cyberchallenge 2024

Cyberchallenge.IT is the national training program addressing young students from 16 to 24 year old. It is organized by the Cybersecurity National Lab of CINI (National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics) and it has the patronage of the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) and the Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP). More information here.

2023

National Security Hub Event

December 6th, Rome, Palace Wedekind. The event is free and it will be possible to attend online (the link will be provided here when available). More information here,

Job Meeting Pisa

Job meeting of companies with students, organized by the Carreer Service: Wednesday 29th November, 2023, at Stazione Leopolda in Piazza Guerrazzi, Pisa. More information here.

Seminar: Hacking the Satellite – the international DEFCON competition in Las Vegas 2023

Speakers: Aleandro Prudenzano e Lorenzo Leonardini – University of Pisa. The seminar is open to all students of the M.Sc. Cybersecurity (and to all other interested students) and will take place on Tuesday 12th December, in room C32 (at the School of Engineering), 17:00-19:00 P.M.

Seminar: The GDPR principles and the role of the Data Protection Officer

Speaker: Dr. Raffaele Conte – IFC-CNR. The seminar is within the course of Data and System Security and will take place on 4 December 2023 at 17:00 in Room C32

Seminar: Privacy in IEEE 802.11: RCM, 802.11bi and 802.11bh

Speaker: Ing. (PhD) Domenico Ficara; Location: Room ADI1 – Engineering School, Monday 16th, 15.00-18.00. More information here

Cycle of seminars of Cybersecurity law

This cycle of seminar is organized by the module of cybersecurity law and is open to external audience. Read here the full list.

CAREER DAYS dedicated to companies in the ICT sector

“Palazzo La Sapienza”, June 20th and June 22nd. There will be 24 companies of the ICT sector. The participation and access to interviews requires a preliminary registration. Detailed information here.

The team of Ethical Hackers of the University of Pisa will participate to the most important Cybersecurity competition in Las Vegas

read here the full news

Seminar: Identity and Access Management.

Speaker: Dott. Santo Amendola (NTT DATA)
When: Friday, May 12 at 15:00
Where: Aula ADII2 (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione) and online.

Seminar: Securing the (Open Source) Software Supply chain: challenges and opportunities.

Speaker: Prof. Roberto di Cosmo (Université Paris Cité)
When: Tuesday, March 14 at 14:00
Where: Aula Seminari Ovest, Computer Science Department, Pisa and online.

2022

Seminar: The GDPR principles and the role of the Data Protection Officer.

The seminar will illustrate the principles defined by the EU Regulation 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation, and the role of the Data Protection Officer, introduced by the Articles 37-39 of the Regulation.

Speaker: Dr. Raffaele Conte, Data Protection Officer, CNR
Monday 5th of December 2022, 11:30, room C01 (Polo C Engineering school)

Dr. Raffaele Conte graduated in computer science, with a master’s degree in “rights and governance of the Internet ecosystem,” he had in charge the management of IT systems and scientific projects in the field of e-Health for the Italian National Research Council. Since October 2020, he has been the Data Protection Officer for the same institution.

The III edition of the European Defence Challenge is open!

The topic of this year is “Security – threats identification and defence strategies”. Discover all the details, the benefits and the prizes at the following link: https://assets-plus.eu/challenge/.

Cybersecurity day

The event “Cybersecurity Day” will be held on October 7th, 2022, at the auditorium of the ISTI-CNR, via Moruzzi 1 Pisa. Participation is free, it is just required the registration. Information and link to the registration can be found here.

News on the first graduate in cybersecurity

for the full news click here.

6th ITASEC Conference: Italian Conference on Cybersecurity

The ITASEC conference will be held in Rome, from 20th to 23rd of June, 2022 (link: www.itasec.it). It provides free registration for university students (includes the entire conference except the banquet). Students should register within the 18:00 of June 19th, using the link: https://form.cybersecnatlab.it/index.php/636519?lang=en

Free event for graduated students: First Ascent

First Ascent is an exclusive, all-expenses-paid, four-day retreat for twenty of Italy’s finest Computer Science and Software Engineering students. It will be held in Copenaghen (DK) on 22-25 September 2022. More information available here. The deadline for application is May 29th, 2022.

Seminar: COMSEC (COMunication SECurity) and TEMPEST (Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Standard): National and international (NATO-UE) standards and measurement procedures

speaker: l’Ing. Amm. Ris. Giuseppe Ilacqua
Thursday 12 May 2022, on the teams of the course “Electromagnetic Security”

Seminar: Hot topics in Language-based security

Speaker Véronique Cortier
Title: Electronic voting: design, attacks and proofs
Thursday, 17th March at 14
Location: Online at http://imt.lu/aula2

Hiring of Cybersecurity experts at the National Agency for Cybersecurity

the National Agency for Cybersecurity is recruiting 50 experts in Cybersecurity, it is required a M.Sc. with minimum degree of 105/110. More information here.

IMQ FARM: The first training path for the future experts in Cybersecurity

IMQ Farm is a new initiative created by the IMQ Group in order to train 15 new cybersecurity experts to be included in the staff of IMQ Intuity and IMQ Minded Security, the two companies of the group specialized in Cyber Security and Software Security.

The specialist course in cyber security will be open to only 15 talents, selected from recent graduates and undergraduates in computer engineering, computer science and cybersecurity.

Hosted in the Milan technology hub of IMQ, the course will be held by authoritative professionals of the sector, with international fame and experience, including: Matteo Meucci, CEO of IMQ Minded Security and founder of the Italian chapter of the OWASP project, the reference standard international for verifying the security of web applications; Stefano Di Paola, co-founder and CTO IMQ Minded Security; Paolo Sardena co-founder and COO of IMQ Intuity.

Interested parties can apply online until February 28, through the website www.imqfarm.com. The selection interviews will be held by March 15 and the training will start on April 4, 2022.

At the end of the course, the most talented resources will be included in the staff of IMQ Intuity and IMQ Minded Security.

For more information and to send your application by the end of February plese read here:

https://www.imqfarm.com/

Seminar: Using Deep Packet Inspection for Monitoring and Security: nDPI in Practice

Speaker: Dr. Luca Deri (ntop)
When: Thursday, 24th February· 2:30 – 3:30PM
Where: on google meet: https://meet.google.com/wjr-atva-hsw
The seminar is open to all students of Cybersecurity.
Further information: Using Deep Packet Inspection for Monitoring and Security: nDPI in Practice

2021

European Defence Challenge II edition

Are you passionate about Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity?
Participate in the European Defence Challenge and compete with other students and graduates from all over Europe in this call for papers for young talents.
This challenge is part of ASSETs+, which is aimed at building and developing the skills of the future in the defence sector. The initiative is funded by the European Commission and involves numerous partners: universities, organisations, industry players and companies, including the University of Pisa and Leonardo.

Submit your application by 14 January 2022.
For more information:

European Defence Challenge

Seminar: “BrokenStrokes: on the (in)security of wireless keyboards”

Wednesday 22 December, 11-12 A.M. CET. (Dr. Gabriele Oligeri, from HBKU – Quatar). The seminar is free and open to everybody. Here is the link for participation. (ID meeting: 857 8757 6363, Passcode: 484531)

Cyberchallenge and OliCyber

Cyberchallenge (up to students 24 years old): registration open until 14/1/2022

OlyCyber hacking school (free and only for high school students): registration open until 9/12/2021

The two events are organized by the Cybersecurity national laboratory of CINI.

Free workshop: Cyber Security per l’industria (in italian)

information and program here

Event: inauguration of the 2021/22 Academic Year at the Presidence of the Republic

The event will be on Monday 18th 2021, at 11:00-12:00. The classes are temporarily suspended and the event will be screened in class by the professors. The event will be available in streaming here: http://call.unipi.it/UnipiInaugurazioneAA2122

Event: Digital Talent Fair

18th & 20th October, 2021. See here for details.

Seminar on “InSpectre: Breaking and Fixing Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities by Formal Analysis”

Prof. Roberto Guanciale,

KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm University, Sweden

Talk title: InSpectre: Breaking and Fixing Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities by Formal Analysis.

Thursday 10th June 2021, 11:00 A.M.

<a href=meet.google.com/wxm-unex-gng> The link to the seminar (on meet) is here.</a>

Talk by Huawei: Synergy between functional safety and cybersecurity in complex automotive systems

Ing. Fabrizio Tronci, Huawei

Talk title: Synergy between functional safety and cybersecurity in complex automotive systems

The seminar can be followed through the TEAMS channel of the course HW and Embedded Security – Master Degree in Cybersecurity Tuesday 25 May 2021, start at 10.30

Follow this link to attend the seminar

Discover the course (in italian)

Presentation of the course in 2021 (in italian)

Seminars on Information and Technology Law

The course Organizational Sciences and Information and Technology Law organizes four seminars on technology law, starting on May 5t, 2021. The full program is available here