ITASEC 2024
Italian Conference on Cyber Security 2024

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 108 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 45 papers were accepted for this volume.

• Towards K-Anonymous Payments in Ethereum
  Francesco Buccafurri , Vincenzo De Angelis , Sara Lazzaro , Giorgia Sigilli
• ShiftyLoader: Syscall-free Reflective Code Injection in the Linux Operating System
  Michele Salvatori , Giorgio Bernardinetti , Francesco Quaglia , Giuseppe Bianchi
• Cybersecurity Assessment of Digital Twin in Smart Grids
  Mulualem B. Anley , Otuekong Ekpo , T. Milinda H. Gedara
• Predicting Source Code Vulnerabilities Using Deep Learning: A Fair Comparison on Real Data
  Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Alessia Saggese , Mario Vento
• SecuriDN: a customizable GUI generating cybersecurity models for DER control architectures
  Davide Cerotti , Daniele Codetta-Raiteri , Giovanna Dondossola , Lavinia Egidi , Giuliana Franceschinis , Luigi Portinale , Roberta Terruggia , Davide Savarro
• Detecting Zero-Day Attacks under Concept Drift: An Online Unsupervised Threat Detection System
  Alessandra De Paola , Salvatore Drago , Pierluca Ferraro , Giuseppe Lo Re
• AI Regulatory Sandboxes between the AI Act and the GDPR: the role of Data Protection as a Corporate Social
  Davide Baldini , Kate Francis
• A Black-box Adversarial Attack on Fake News Detection Systems
  Farwa Batool , Federico Canino , Federico Concone , Giuseppe Lo Re , Marco Morana
• ECC’s Achilles’ Heel: Unveiling Weak Keys in Standardized Curves
  Enrico Talotti , Matteo Paier , Marino Miculan
• Benchmarking Virtualized Page Permission for Malware Detection: a Web Server Case Study
  Pasquale Caporaso , Giuseppe Bianchi , Francesco Quaglia
• The Case for Ultra High Speed Portable Network Security Filters
  Alessandro Rivitti , Angelo Tulumello , Giuseppe Bianchi
• Private law perspectives of cybersecurity
  Federica Casarosa , Giovanni Comandé
• Security Risks and Best Practices of MLOps: A Multivocal Literature Review
  Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile , Luigi Quaranta
• Design of a Hardening Module for Automatically Securing Containers
  Luca Verderame , Luca Caviglione
• In Plain Sight: A Pragmatic Exploration of the Medical Landscape (In)security
  Lorenzo Bracciale , Pierpaolo Loreti , Emanuele Raso , Giuseppe Bianchi
• Hardening Machine Learning based Network Intrusion Detection Systems with synthetic netflows
  Andrea Venturi , Dimitri Gall , Dario Stabili , Mirco Marchetti
• Timing side-channel attacks on USB devices using eBPF
  Gianmarco Lusvardi , Luca Ferretti , Mauro Andreolini
• OpenSatRange: An open cyber range for operators and users of satellite communication networks
  Fabio Patrone , Pierpaolo Loreti , Luca Fiscariello , Lorenzo Bracciale , Alessandro Amici , Andrea Detti , Cesare Roseti , Michele Luglio , Francesco Zampognaro , Giuseppe Bianchi , Mario Marchese
• Enhancing Fraud Detection through Cascading Machine Learning Models and Clustering Techniques
  Giuseppe Fenza , Salvatore Froncillo , Claudio Stanzione
• Hyperproperties for Safe and Secure RFID Systems
  Ludovico Fusco , Alessandro Aldini
• VoWiFi Security: An Exploration of Non-3GPP Untrusted Access via Public ePDG URLs
  Francesco Zampognaro , Domenico Verde , Giuseppe Bianchi
• Feature extraction for anomaly detection in industrial control systems
  Silvio Russo , Claudio Zanasi , Isabella Marasco
• On attacks (dis)similarities to test adversarial defense: can we reduce the attack set?
  Tommaso Puccetti , Tommaso Zoppi , Andrea Ceccarelli
• Smart Critical Infrastructures Security management and governance: Implementation of Cyber Resilience KPIs for Decentralized Energy Asset
  Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili , Cristian Martella , Angelo Martella , Alessandro Lazari , Antonella Longo , Antonio Ficarella
• Toward dynamic epistemic verification of zero-knowledge protocols
  Gabriele Costa , Cosimo Perini Brogi
• The role of disinformation, propaganda and active measures in cyber warfare. noname(057)16 travels to Italy
  Arturo di Corinto
• Ask the right queries: Improving search engine retrieval of vulnerable internet-connected devices through interactive query reformulation
  Andrea Bernardini , Claudio Carpineto , Simone Angelini , Giovanna Dondossola , Roberta Terruggia
• Standard-Based Remote Attestation: The Veraison Project
  Lorenzo Ferro , Antonio Lioy
• Unveiling Online Conspiracy Theorists: a Text-Based Approach and Characterization
  Alessandra Recordare , Guglielmo Cola , Tiziano Fagni , Maurizio Tesconi
• Building call graph of WebAssembly programs via abstract semantics
  Mattia Paccamiccio , Franco Raimondi , Michele Loreti
• 2in1: A Bimodal Behavioral Biometric-based User Authentication Scheme for Smartphones
  Attaullah Buriro Buriro , Flaminia Luccio
• Multilevel Database Decomposition Framework
  Fabrizio Baiardi , Cosimo Comella , Vincenzo Sammartino
• Supporting Criminal Investigations on the Blockchain: A Temporal Logic-based Approach
  Marco Blanchini , Michele Cerreta , Davide Di Monda , Matteo Fabbri , Mario Raciti , Hamza Sajjad Ahmad , Gabriele Costa
• A Preliminary Study on the Creation of a Covert Channel with HTTP Headers
  Stefano Bistarelli , Michele Ceccarelli , Chiara Luchini , Ivan Mercanti , Francesco Santini
• IKE-less IPsec: Enhancing Security for IoT Device Networks
  Flavio Ciravegna , Giacomo Bruno , Antonio Lioy
• Securing the Internet of Medical Things using PUF-based SSI Authentication
  Mario Barbareschi , Biagio Boi , Franco Cirillo , Marco De Santis , Christian Esposito
• Netstaldi: A Modular Distributed Architecture for Incremental Network Discovery
  Matteo Paier , Mattia Pizzolitto , Gian Luca Foresti , Marino Miculan
• Exploiting Data Spaces to Enable Privacy Preserving Data Exchange in the Energy Supply Chain
  Luigi Coppolino , Alessandro De Crecchio , Roberto Nardone , Alfredo Petruolo , Luigi Romano , Federica Uccello
• Inferring Political Leaning on X (Twitter): A Zero-Shot Approach in an Italian Scenario
  Caterina Senette , Margherita Gambini , Tiziano Fagni , Victoria Popa , Maurizio Tesconi
• Implementing and testing RollJam on Software-Defined Radios
  Dario Stabili , Filip Valgimigli , Tobia Bocchi , Filippo Veronesi , Mirco Marchetti
• David versus Goliath: Can Machine Learning Detect LLM-Generated Text? A Case Study in the Detection of Phishing Emails
  Francesco Greco , Giuseppe Desolda , Andrea Esposito , Alessandro Carelli
• Evaluating trainees in large cyber exercises
  Andrea Artioli , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti
• Understanding how users choose passwords: analysis and best practices
  Alessia Michela Di Campi , Flaminia Luccio
• A Privacy-Preserving Approach for Vulnerability Scanning Detection
  Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Luca Mannella
• Is the Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions? A Criminological and Criminal Law Analysis of Prospective Regulation for Ethical Hacking in Italy and the EU
  Gaia Fiorinelli , Maria Vittoria Zucca