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
| 16/02/2026 | Intro: Welcome & intro (Alessandro Zanier, Augusto Zanellato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 19/02/2026 | Network: fundamentals (Augusto Zanellato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 23/02/2026 | Network: monitoring and analysis && Misc: Docker crash course (Augusto Zanellato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 26/02/2026 | Web: HTTP Protocol and Web-Security Overview + Logic Vulnerabilities (Valerio Belenkov) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 02/03/2026 | Web: File Disclosure + Server-Side Request Forgery (Davide Saladino) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 05/03/2026 | Binary: Intro, executable formats, memory layout, calling conventions, x86-64 assembly (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 09/03/2026 | Binary: Static & dynamic analysis (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 12/03/2026 | Binary: Stack-based buffer overflows, stack smashing, shellcode, ret2win, debugging (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 16/03/2026 | Crypto: Intro, transposition ciphers, XOR, perfect secrecy (Alberto Barbato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 19/03/2026 | Crypto: block ciphers (DES, AES), MitM attack on 2DES, modes of operations (Marco Sanguin) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 23/03/2026 | Crypto: block cipher modes, stream ciphers, padding oracle (Marco Sanguin) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 26/03/2026 | Network: Attack & Defense: A network security case study (Augusto Zanellato, Alessandro Zanier) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 30/03/2026 | Web: Code and Command Injection (Augusto Zanellato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 02/04/2026 | Web: SQL Injection (Valerio Belenkov) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 09/04/2026 | Binary: Mitigations (ASLR, PIE, Canary), PLT, GOT (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 13/04/2026 | Binary: Anti-rev, Anti-debug, scripting, side channels (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 16/04/2026 | Binary: Format string vulnerabilities (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 20/04/2026 | Crypto: Intro to number theory and group theory (Alberto Barbato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 23/04/2026 | Crypto: Public-key crypto, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, RSA (Alberto Barbato) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 27/04/2026 | Crypto: common RSA attacks and demonstrations (Marco Sanguin) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 30/04/2026 | Web: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (Davide Saladino) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 04/05/2026 | Web: XML External Entities, SSTI (Alessandro Mizzaro) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 07/05/2026 | Binary: ret2libc, one_gadget, ROP (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 11/05/2026 | Binary: seccomp, stack pivoting (Alessandro Zanier, Thomas Guerra) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 14/05/2026 | Crypto: hash functions, MAC, DSA (Riccardo Zamuner) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 18/05/2026 | Crypto: PRNGs, Cryptographically secure PRNGs, LCG (Riccardo Zamuner) | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 21/05/2026 | Review and preparation for the local competition | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
| 25/05/2026 | Review and preparation for the local competition | 16.00-19.00 in 1A150, Torre Archimede, Via Trieste 63 |
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