CyberChallenge.IT Cybersecurity training


The UniPD Node of the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab and the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group are organizing the CyberChallenge.IT 2022 at the University of Padua! This is a program aimed at training in cybersecurity the best Italian students that are between 16 and 24 years old. CyberChallenge.IT is a program sponsored by the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity Research Committee.
If you are young, have good programming knowledge, and want to further improve your skills, check out the official website of the event for more details: CyberChallenge.IT

Local Organizers

Lectures program

24/02/2024Intro: Welcome & intro (Alessandro Zanier, Augusto Zanellato)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
27/02/2024Network: fundamentals (Augusto Zanellato)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
03/03/2024Network: monitoring and analysis && Misc: Docker crash course (Augusto Zanellato)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
06/03/2024Web: HTTP Protocol and Web-Security Overview + Logic Vulnerabilities (Valerio Belenkov)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede
10/03/2024Web: File Disclosure + Server-Side Request Forgery (Augusto Zanellato)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
13/03/2024Crypto: Intro, transposition ciphers, xor, perfect secrecy (Riccardo Zamuner)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
17/03/2024Crypto: block ciphers (DES, AES), MitM attack on 2DES, modes of operations (Riccardo Zamuner)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
20/03/2024Crypto: block cipher modes, stream ciphers, padding oracle (Riccardo Zamuner)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
24/03/2024Binary: Intro, executable formats, x86 assembly, memory layout, calling conventions (Samuele Esposito)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
27/03/2024Binary: Basic exploitation (buffer overflows), GDB, shellcode, ret2win (Francesco Costantino Bulychov)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
31/03/2024Binary: Static & dynamic analysis, IDA, structs, arrays, patching (Alessandro Zanier)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
03/04/2024Network: Attack & Defense: A network security case study (Augusto Zanellato)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
07/04/2024Web: Code and Command Injection (Augusto Zanellato)16.00-19.00 in 1BC50, Torre Archimede
10/04/2024Web: SQL Injection (Valerio Belenkov)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
14/04/2024Crypto: Intro to number theory and group theory (Gioele Scandaletti)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
17/04/2024Crypto: Public-key crypto, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, RSA (Gioele Scandaletti)16.00-19.00 in 2AB40, Torre Archimede
24/04/2024Crypto: common RSA attacks and demonstrations (Gioele Scandaletti)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
28/04/2024Binary: Mitigations (ASLR, PIE, Canary), ROP (Francesco Costantino Bulychov)16.00-19.00 in 1BC50, Torre Archimede
05/05/2024Binary: GOT, PLT, Format string vulnerabilities (Alessandro Zanier)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
08/05/2024Web: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (Alessandro Mizzaro)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
12/05/2024Web: XML External Entities, SSTI (Alessandro Mizzaro)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
15/05/2024Crypto: hash functions, MAC, DSA (Riccardo Zamuner)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
19/05/2024Crypto: PRNGs, Cryptographically secure PRNGs, lcg (Gioele Scandaletti)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
22/05/2024Binary: Anti-rev, Anti-debug, scripting, side channels (Alessandro Zanier)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63
26/05/2024Binary: ret2libc, one_gadget, seccomp (Samuele Esposito)16.00-19.00 in 1BC45, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63

CyberChallenge 2018: the UniPD team got the first national prize!

On the news: Il Bo Live UniPD