Cyber attacks, Piantedosi convenes the national security committee

The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, has called a meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security for Tuesday 10 November at the Interior Ministry. At the center of the meeting was the examination of the risks to public safety connected to cyber attacks and the cyber threat.

After all, there has been an escalation in recent days. From the bounty of pro-Russian hackers on Minister Tajani, on the Rome prosecutor Lo Voi and on the head of the postal police, to cyber attacks such as the one on the Brenner Tunnel, up to the false bomb alerts on European flights.

In short, the topic is becoming quite serious. If the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, in an interview with La Verità, pushes for "more data centers" to guarantee "digital sovereignty, data security and economic growth", for the president of Forza Italia senators, Stefania Craxi, "hybrid war is already inside our home and affects everyone, without exception. The target is the State, and tomorrow it will be the vote", relaunching the Fi bill on the democratic shield presented in the Senate with his colleague Daniela Ternullo. Criticism instead from the opposition: «For days, Italy has been under cyber attack at every level: supermarkets with tampered with refrigerators, banks, false bomb alerts on schools and airplanes. And Minister Piantedosi convenes the National Committee for Public Order and Security only for Tuesday. They take it easy", declared Angelo Bonelli, spokesperson for Green Europe and member of Avs, highlighting how "the current government, with the 2025 budget law, has cut 15 million a year from the national cybersecurity strategy until 2037: 180 million less, while Italy invests less than half the G7 average in cyber defense".