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Four members of the ULISSE Students Laboratory, Cristian Di Nicola, Renato Eugenio Maria Marziano, Alan Davide Bovo and Marco Balducci, recently took part in the SMD Cyber Challenge 2025 and secured a remarkable 2nd place finish. This post brings you an interview with the team members, who share their experiences, strategies, and advices for aspiring cybersecurity enthusiasts. Question 1. How did you prepare for the SMD Cyber Challenge? Tell us about your preparation journey: what resources did you use, how much time did you dedicate to training, and how did you coordinate your preparation as a team? ...

Months of intense preparation have culminated in an extraordinary achievement: Team Unibo has secured the bronze medal at the CyberChallenge.IT 2025 finals, held on July 6th and 7th at the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) in Turin. Visit our parent laboratory website for more information (italian)

We did it! 🚀 The first edition of Ulisse CTF just ended and it was a fantastic success! A few numbers to sum it up: 📊 362 registered accounts 146 teams actively competing (completed the sanity check) 1701 flag submissions (478 valid) Only 2 challenges remained unsolved out of 27 Huge thanks to the Ulisse CTF Team! Your support and the quality of the challenges you crafted made this event shine. ...

This year, the ULISSE laboratory will take part in Alma Mater Fest 2024, the University of Bologna’s official welcome event for students. The 2024 edition of Alma Mater Fest will be held from October 21 to 23. To mark the occasion, the lab has decided to organise a short course introducing computer security and its practical applications. The course will be held from at Lab 4 in the Engineering Faculty, Via del Risorgimento 2, Bologna. ...

Anche quest’anno l’Università di Bologna ha preso parte a CyberChallenge.IT, la competizione nazionale di cybersecurity organizzata dal Cybersecurity National Lab. Dopo un percorso formativo durato diversi mesi, un team di studenti del laboratorio Ulisse ha partecipato alla competizione finale, che si è svolta dal 3 al 6 luglio 2024 presso l’International Training Center dell’International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO) di Torino. Il team, composto da Alan Davide Bovo, Giacomo Boschi, Davide Gianessi, Renato Eugenio Maria Marziano, Elia Soldati e Simone Mazzacano (da sinistra a destra nella foto), ha affrontato altre 42 squadre provenienti da tutta Italia in una gara CTF Attack/Defense di 8 ore, dalle 10:00 alle 18:00 del 4 luglio. ...

Data: 7 marzo 2024 Ora: ~19:00 - ~22:30 Luogo: Laboratorio 2, Plesso Risorgimento Indirizzo: Via Risorgimento 2, Bologna Warning ...