In recent weeks Italy has experienced an unprecedented wave of alarms. Thousands of schools received emails containing bomb threats, civilian flights across Europe were diverted or escorted by military fighter jets, and in several supermarkets the refrigeration systems were tampered with remotely. No device was ever found, but the effect was real: evacuations, disrupted services, destroyed goods and a widespread climate of fear.
What reached citizens was mostly confusion: fragmented communications, figures that changed within a few hours, school principals and managers left without clear guidance. And in the public narrative everything ended up under a single label: “hacker attack”.
It’s not all the same thing
A threatening email sent in bulk doesn’t breach any system. Tampering with an internet-connected system, on the other hand, is a genuine computer intrusion, made possible by exposed and poorly protected devices. Confusing the two phenomena amplifies anxiety, because every email seems like proof of a compromised infrastructure.
What we’ll do
– reconstruct the timeline of events
– separate established facts from hypotheses and disinformation
– explain in accessible terms how these attacks work and why they target procedures even before systems
Where
The meeting takes place simultaneously at both locations and is streamed live:
– Pescara: Viale Marconi 278/1
– L’Aquila: Via Ed Arco Cirillo 10
– Online: live on YouTube (in Italian)
Open to everyone, free admission. No technical skills required.
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