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June 3, 2022
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- Cyber attack on the System Authority website
Port of the Western Ligurian Sea
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- Merlo (Federlogistica-Conftrasporto) denounces: our
competent dicastery does not move
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 The website of the Port System Authority of the
Western Ligurian Sea, the body that governs the ports of Genoa and
Savona-Vado Ligure, was the subject of an attack
computer science, an action that the AdSP recalled to have been
announced by the pro-Russian collective Killnet. A cyber attack,
the one towards the web platform of the port authority
Ligurian. certainly not of an advanced type, but for many years effective for
exhaust the resources of a computer system and then make it
almost useless. The port authority, in fact, has
explained that since yesterday morning the defense systems of AdSP and
Liguria Digitale have detected anomalous traffic peaks.
Technically - confirmed the body - these are type attacks
DDoS, which generate a disproportionate number of simultaneous accesses
to websites with the aim of causing congestion and consequent
service interruption.-
- The port authority has announced that at the moment the services are
active and no data compromises and a team of
technicians is constantly engaged, in close collaboration
with the Postal Police, to integrate the activities of
automatic monitoring with ad hoc interventions, in order to
counter attacks and avoid disruptions.
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- Commenting on this new cyber attack, the president of
Federlogistica-Conftrasporto, Luigi Merlo, reiterated the need
greater commitment on the part of the institutions to counter
this threat. Highlighting that an escalation is taking place
of hacker attacks, including against activities
maritime and in particular the ports, Merlo denounced that "of
in the face of this real danger and an increasing number
relevant port system authorities, including those of
Genoa and Savona and that of Venice, as well as some
terminal, target of hacker offensives, the Ministry of
Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility continues to
behave as if nothing is happening and dedicate himself, in a way
monothematic, to the legitimate and certainly important theme of the
sustainability». "While the main ports
Europeans - underlined the president of
Federlogistica-Conftrasporto - have been inserted by the respective
Governments in the NIS (Network and Information Security) Directive on
our competent dicastery does not move and the Authorities of
Port System, which they would immediately need to arrange
of a cyber manager, they are forced to navigate on sight».
"We react to an offensive projected towards the future - he
concluded Merlo - with advanced means and technology with timing, will
and nineteenth-century methodologies, forgetting once more
that the challenge of competitiveness, in ports as in the whole
Country, you play and win not only on material infrastructure,
but also and, perhaps, especially on digitization».
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