Magnetico e NEVERHACK Italy insieme per formare talenti in Cybersecurity

Magnetico Associazione Culturale e NEVERHACK Italy, società leader nella cybersecurity, hanno ufficializzato un Protocollo di Intesa e un Contratto di Co-Working per avviare una collaborazione strategica volta allo sviluppo di competenze avanzate nel settore tecnologico e alla valorizzazione dei giovani talenti.

La partnership prevede l’apertura di una nuova unità locale di NEVERHACK dedicata alle attività di Ricerca & Sviluppo (R&D) e Delivery presso il complesso Tecno Polo di Regalbuto (EN) gestito da Magnetico, e l’istituzione di un’Academy con percorsi formativi dedicati a specializzazioni critiche come Cybersecurity, Network e Network Security. Grazie a questa collaborazione, NEVERHACK avrà l’opportunità di accedere ai profili formati e selezionati tramite il network educativo di Magnetico.

Nel primo anno di attività, saranno coinvolti fino a 25 tirocinanti formati attraverso i laboratori e le piattaforme simulate di Magnetico, agevolando il loro ingresso nel mondo del lavoro. I percorsi di formazione on-demand, personalizzati ed erogati da istruttori certificati, saranno orientati alle specifiche esigenze operative di NEVERHACK.

Al termine della formazione, gli studenti più meritevoli avranno l’opportunità di partecipare al processo di selezione per un potenziale inserimento all’interno dei team di NEVERHACK.

Il Circuito Virtuoso per l’Occupazione

L’accelerazione della trasformazione digitale e l’aumento delle minacce informatiche rendono sempre di più la cybersecurity una priorità strategica. Tuttavia, permane una carenza strutturale di competenze che indebolisce la capacità difensiva di aziende e amministrazioni: a livello globale, la forza lavoro specializzata in cybersecurity conta circa 5,5 milioni di professionisti, ma per soddisfare la domanda ne servirebbero almeno altri 4 milioni.

In Italia, il mercato è cresciuto del 15% nel 2024, raggiungendo i 2,48 miliardi di euro, ma ancora il 62% delle aziende ritiene insufficiente l’offerta di tecnici ed esperti nella protezione dei sistemi ICT, OT e IoT.

La partnership fra Magnetico e NEVERHACK Italy si inserisce in questo contesto, mirando a contrastare la scarsità di profili di cybersecurity adeguatamente formati e creando un circuito virtuoso di orientamento, formazione specialistica e inserimento lavorativo, in particolare per le aree interne della Sicilia. L’obiettivo è creare un corretto percorso di orientamento, formazione e inserimento al lavoro, trovando nel mondo della cybersecurity un’occasione per rilanciare il territorio.

Ing. Giancarlo Di Lieto, Head Of Cyber Security NEVERHACK Southern Region: “La partnership con Magnetico e l’avvio dell’Academy in Sicilia segna un passo in avanti nel nostro impegno, avviato da tempo in altre aree del Paese, per formare nuovi talenti, riducendo lo skill gap ancora troppo elevato tra domanda e offerta di lavoro nel campo della cybersecurity: investire in formazione significa, infatti, contribuire in modo concreto a colmare un gap che oggi pesa su aziende, istituzioni e cittadini. Con questo progetto valorizziamo il territorio, creando nuove opportunità occupazionali per i giovani che desiderano inserirsi nel mondo del lavoro e costruire il proprio futuro nella loro regione d’origine. L’edizione siciliana dell’Academy conferma, inoltre, la nostra volontà di continuare a investire in persone e territori, accompagnandoli nella transizione digitale e partecipando allo sviluppo tecnologico del Paese”.

Matteo Mirenda, vice-presidente di Magnetico Associazione Culturale: “Questo Protocollo è la prova che anche dai territori dell’entroterra siciliano si può generare eccellenza e attrarre investimenti qualificati. Creare un’Academy focalizzata su Cybersecurity e Network Security con un partner di rilievo come NEVERHACK non solo colma un gap formativo critico, ma offre ai nostri giovani la possibilità di costruire una carriera ICT ad alto valore senza dover lasciare la propria terra. È il nostro modo di rilanciare il territorio attraverso le competenze“.

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Truffa Wi-Fi negli aeroporti: condannato a 7 anni per furto di dati personali

Un tribunale australiano ha condannato un uomo di 44 anni che ha rubato i dati personali di passeggeri di compagnie aeree e visitatori aeroportuali per diversi mesi. È stato condannato a sette anni e quattro mesi di carcere per aver creato reti Wi-Fi false e aver poi utilizzato le informazioni rubate.

Questa storia è iniziata nell’aprile 2024, quando i dipendenti di una compagnia aerea australiana hanno scoperto una rete wireless sospetta a bordo di un aereo. Dopo aver contattato la Polizia Federale Australiana (AFP), le forze dell’ordine hanno arrestato il sospettato, allora 42enne. Una perquisizione del suo bagaglio a mano ha portato alla luce un dispositivo Wi-Fi portatile Pineapple, un computer portatile e un telefono cellulare. La polizia ha poi perquisito la sua abitazione e lo ha formalmente arrestato.

L’indagine ha rivelato che l’aggressore operava negli aeroporti di Perth, Melbourne e Adelaide, oltre che su numerosi voli nazionali. Ha utilizzato una variante classica dell’attacco Evil Twin, creando falsi hotspot Wi-Fi utilizzando gli stessi nomi di rete (SSID) delle reti legittime di compagnie aeree e aeroporti.

Di conseguenza, ignari passeggeri si sono collegati a reti dannose e sono stati reindirizzati a pagine di phishing. Lì, alle vittime è stato chiesto di accedere utilizzando le credenziali di posta elettronica o dei social media. Le password e i dati di accesso inseriti sono finiti nelle mani dei criminali.

Secondo l’ AFP, l’esame dei dispositivi sequestrati all’uomo ha rivelato la vera portata di questa attività. Migliaia di foto e video intimi, credenziali rubate di numerose persone e registrazioni di pagine di accesso fraudolente sono state trovate sui dispositivi.

È emerso inoltre che il sospettato aveva preso di mira specificamente gli account delle donne. Dopo aver ottenuto l’accesso ai loro social media e alle loro email, ha monitorato la loro corrispondenza personale e rubato immagini e video privati ​​di natura intima.

Dopo che la polizia ha perquisito la sua abitazione, l’autore ha tentato di distruggere le prove. Il giorno successivo, ha cancellato 1.752 file dal suo cloud storage e ha tentato, senza successo, di cancellare da remoto tutti i dati dal suo cellulare.

Nel luglio 2024, l’imputato è stato formalmente accusato di molteplici reati. Alla fine si è dichiarato colpevole di 15 capi d’imputazione, tra cui cinque capi d’imputazione per accesso non autorizzato a dati riservati, tre capi d’imputazione per tentato accesso, un capo d’imputazione per furto, due capi d’imputazione per interruzione di comunicazioni elettroniche, possesso di dati con l’intento di commettere un reato, tentata distruzione di prove e mancato rispetto di un ordine del tribunale.

La polizia australiana ricorda agli utenti che le reti Wi-Fi gratuite legittime non richiedono mai l’accesso tramite e-mail o account social. Se il portale di accesso richiede tali informazioni, ciò dovrebbe destare sospetti.

Inoltre, gli esperti consigliano di evitare di utilizzare app bancarie e altri servizi con dati sensibili quando si è connessi a reti pubbliche e di eliminare manualmente le connessioni salvate dopo l’uso, per evitare che il dispositivo si riconnetta automaticamente a esse.

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3D Printing and the Dream of Affordable Prosthetics

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has left us humans with the necessity to craft artificial replacement limbs to restore some semblance of the original functionality, at least until regenerative medicine reaches maturity.

Despite this limitation, humans have become very adept at crafting prosthetic limbs, starting with fairly basic prosthetics to fully articulated and beautifully sculpted ones, all the way to modern-day functional prosthetics. Yet as was the case a hundred years ago, today’s prosthetics are anything but cheap. This is mostly due to the customization required as no person’s injury is the same.

When the era of 3D printing arrived earlier this century, it was regularly claimed that this would make cheap, fully custom prosthetics a reality. Unfortunately this hasn’t happened, for a variety of reasons. This raises the question of whether 3D printing can at all play a significant role in making prosthetics more affordable, comfortable or functional.

What’s In A Prosthetic

Shengjindian prosthetic leg, 300-200 BCE (Credit: HaziiDozen, Wikimedia)
The requirements for a prosthetic depend on the body part that’s affected, and how much of it has been lost. In the archaeological record we can find examples of prosthetics dating back to around 3000 BCE in Ancient Egypt, in the form of prosthetic toes that likely were mostly cosmetic. When it came to leg prosthetics, these would usually be fashioned out of wood, which makes the archaeological record here understandably somewhat spotty.
Artificial iron arm, once thought to have been owned by Gotz von Berlichingen (1480-1562). (Credit: Mr John Cummings, Wikimedia)
While Pliny the Elder made mention of prosthetics like an iron hand for a general, the first physical evidence of a prosthetic for a lost limb are found in the form of items such as the Roman Capua Leg, made out of metal, and a wooden leg found with a skeleton at the Iron Age-era Shengjindian cemetery that was dated to around 300 BCE. These prosthetics were all effectively static, providing the ability to stand, walk and grip items, but truly functional prosthetics didn’t begin to be developed until the 16th century.

These days we have access to significantly more advanced manufacturing methods and materials, 3D scanners, and the ability to measure the electric currents produced by muscles to drive motors in a prosthetic limb, called myoelectric control. This latter control method can be a big improvement over the older method whereby the healthy opposing limb partially controls the body-powered prosthetic via some kind of mechanical system.

All of this means that modern-day prosthetics are significantly more complex than a limb-shaped piece of wood or metal, giving some hint as to why 3D printing may not produce quite the expected savings. Even historically, the design of functional prosthetic limbs involved complex, fragile mechanisms, and regardless of whether a prosthetic leg was just static or not, it would have to include some kind of cushioning that matched the function of the foot and ankle to prevent the impact of each step to be transferred straight into the stump. After all, a biological limb is much more than just some bones that happen to have muscles stuck to them.

Making It Fit

Fitting and care instructions for cushioning and locking prothesis liners. (Credit: Össur)
Perhaps the most important part of a prosthetic is the interface with the body. This one element determines the comfort level, especially with leg prostheses, and thus for how long a user can wear it without discomfort or negative health impacts. The big change here has been largely in terms of available materials, with plastics and similar synthetics replacing the wood and leather of yesteryear.

Generally, the first part of fitting a prosthetic limb involves putting on the silicone liner, much like one would put on a sock before putting on a shoe. This liner provides cushioning and creates an interface with the prosthesis. For instance, here is an instruction manual for just such a liner by Össur.

These liners are sized and trimmed to fit the limb, like a custom comfortable sock. After putting on the liner and adding an optional distal end pad, the next step is to put on the socket to which the actual prosthetic limb is attached. The fit between the socket and liner can be done with a locking pin, as pictured on the right, or in the case of a cushion liner by having a tight seal between the liner and socket. Either way, the liner and socket should not be able to move independently from each other when pulled on — this movement is called “pistoning”.

For a below-knee leg prosthesis the remainder of the device below the socket include the pylon and foot, all of which are fairly standard. The parts that are most appealing for 3D printing are this liner and the socket, as they need to be the most customized for an individual patient.

Companies like the US-based Quorum Prosthetics do in fact 3D print these sockets, and they claim that it does reduce labor cost compared to traditional methods, but their use of an expensive commercial 3D printer solution means that the final cost per socket is about the same as using traditional methods, even if the fit may be somewhat better.
The luggable Limbkit system, including 3D printer and workshop. (Credit: Operation Namaste)
This highlights perhaps the most crucial point about using 3D printing for prosthetics: to make it truly cheaper you also have to lean into lower-tech solutions that are accessible to even hobbyists around the world. This is what for example Operation Namaste does, with 3D printed molds for medical grade silicone to create liners, and their self-contained Limbkit system for scanning and printing a socket on the spot in PETG. This socket can be then reinforced with fiberglass and completed with the pylon and foot, creating a custom prosthetic leg in a fraction of the time that it would typically take.

Founder of Operation Namaste, Jeff Erenstone, wrote a 2023 article on the hype and reality with 3D printed prosthetics, as well as how he got started with the topic. Of note is that the low-cost methods that his Operation Namaste brings to low-resource countries in particular are not quite on the same level as a prosthetic you’d get fitted elsewhere, but they bring a solution where previously none existed, at a price point that is bearable.

Merging this world with that of of Western medical systems and insurance companies is definitely a long while off. Additive manufacturing is still being tested and only gradually integrated into Western medical systems. At some level this is quite understandable, as it comes with many asterisks that do not exist in traditional manufacturing methods.

It probably doesn’t bear reminding that having an FDM printed prosthetic snap or fracture is a far cry from having a 3D printed widget do the same. You don’t want your bones to suddenly go and break on you, either, and faulty prosthetics are a welcome source of expensive lawsuits in the West for lawyers.

Making It Work

Beyond liners and sockets there is much more to prosthetic limbs, as alluded to earlier. Myoelectric control in particular is a fairly recent innovation that detects the electrical signals from the activation of skeletal muscles, which are then used to activate specific motor functions of a prosthetic limb, as well as a prosthetic hand.

The use of muscle and nerve activity is the subject of a lot of current research pertaining to prosthetics, not just for motion, but also for feedback. Ideally the same nerves that once controlled the lost limb, hand or finger can be reused again, along with the nerves that used to provide a sense of touch, of temperature and more. Whether this would involve surgical interfacing with said nerves, or some kind of brain-computer interface is still up in the air.

How this research will affect future prosthetics remains to be seen, but it’s quite possible that as artificial limbs become more advanced, so too will the application of additive manufacturing in this field, as the next phase following the introduction of plastics and other synthetic materials.

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Фридрих Мерц сегодня встретится с Дональдом Туском. Речь пойдёт и об Украине

Сегодня в Берлине правительства Германии и Польши проведут совместное заседание: канцлер Фридрих Мерц примет премьер-министра Польши Дональда Туска.

У каждого сотого россиянина — ВИЧ

Уже 1,25 млн человек имеют такой диагноз, это только те, у кого он официально подтверждён, сообщили в РАН.

Зустріч спецпосланця президента США Віткоффа з лідером РФ Путіним відбудеться завтра, заявили у Кремлі, передають ЗМІ.

Росія нібито зацікавлена в ​​«успіху переговорів з Україною», зазначив речник Кремля Пєсков.

Аэропорт Вильнюса не работал всю ночь из-за воздушных шаров - ограничения затронули около 50 рейсов и 7400 пассажиров

Воздушное пространство над аэропортом в столице Литвы было закрыто в течение 11 часов, сообщили местные СМИ. Аэропорт открыли лишь в 5 утра. В компании Oro navigacija, обеспечивающей безопасность воздушного движения, заявили, что шары из Беларуси преднамеренно выпускались в зоны, опасные для авиации.

США прагнуть миру, але Росія має відповісти за воєнні злочини, - єврокомісар Макграт

«Я не думаю, що історія буде милосердно судити будь-які спроби «витирати» російські злочини в Україні. Вони повинні нести відповідальність за ці злочини, і це буде підхід Європейського Союзу в усіх цих дискусіях», - наголосив він.

Та додав, що безкарність за ці злочини - «насіння для наступного раунду агресії та наступного вторгнення».

США можуть «перекрити» Україні шлях до членства в НАТО, — за даними CNN, Білий дім обмірковує сценарій підписання країнами Альянсу власних домовленостей з москвою

Україна ж юридично не згортатиме курс в НАТО — він залишиться прописаним у Конституції.

На в’їзді до тимчасово окупованого Бердянська, Запорізької області стався потужний вибух.

У результаті загинули п’ятеро російських військових із «Росгвардії», а також пошкоджено два пікапи та броньований автомобіль ГАЗ-2330 «Тигр».

Отравляющим веществом, использовавшимся в Первую мировую, были заправлены водометы грузинской полиции, разгоняющей демонстрантов, говорится в расследовании Би-би-си

Грузинская полиция применяла против протестующих химическое вещество времен Первой мировой войны — бромбензилцианид, также известный как «камит».

Каллас зазначила, що вчорашні українсько-американські переговори були «складними, але продуктивними». Відповідаючи на запитання, чи вона вірить у те, що американці знайдуть хороше рішення для України, Каллас зазначила, що українці на цих переговорах самі.

«Якби вони були разом з європейцями, то однозначно були б значно сильнішими. Але я вірю, що українці здатні постояти за себе»,- наголосила Каллас.

Зеленський та Перша леді прибули до Франції, – Суспільне.

Запланована особиста зустріч з Макроном, а також візит на виробничі потужності авіакосмічної компанії Dassault Aviation.

Як пише WSJ, питання гарантій безпеки для України залишилося невирішеним після переговорів.

CNN повідомляє, що Віткофф вже сьогодні вилетить до москви на зустріч з путіним. Раніше пєсков заявляв, що переговори плануються 4-5 грудня.

Американці на переговорах у Флориді передали Україні позицію рф, яка вимагає повного виходу ЗСУ з Донбасу, – пише РБК-Україна.

Україна пояснила, що такий варіант неможливий через Конституцію, позицію суспільства та реальну ситуацію на фронті.

Київ наполягає: розмова про території може починатись лише з нинішньої лінії зіткнення

Умєров доповів Зеленському про підсумки переговорів у США.

"Маємо суттєвий поступ у просуванні достойного миру та зближенні наших позицій з американською стороною",
– написав секретар РНБО.

У промзоні Сіднея спалахнула масштабна пожежа, під час якої вибухнув резервуар із хімікатами.

Наразі відомо про двох постраждалих.

За словами очевидців, вибухова хвиля була настільки сильною, що її відчули на околицях міста

В дагестанском Каспийске прозвучало несколько взрывов, повреждена многоэтажка.

Ночью власти региона объявляли угрозу атаки БПЛА. Но официальной информации сейчас нет. По словам местных жителей, недалеко от пострадавшего здания находится судостроительный завод «Дагдизель».