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03 August 2021 "Take urgent action to

, the resilience of information systems and the

". This is what emerged from the hearing of the Minister of the Interior Luciano Lamorgese at

dedicated at the start to the "serious cyber attack on the site of the Lazio Region".

With a note, the president of Copasir, the Committee for the Security of the Republic, Senator Adolfo Urso, made it known that he had "today heard the Minister of the Interior, Prefect Luciana Lamorgese, on the activity of the dicastery in the field of national security. The wide-ranging and articulated discussion concerned first of all the serious cyber attack on the site of the Lazio Region and, in particular, the activity of

Postal police in the work of contrasting criminal activity, the methods of attack and its main objectives. The Minister also explained the resurgence of the phenomenon, which in recent months has affected both public and private activities, emphasizing the need to act urgently to raise the level of security, the resilience of IT systems and operator training. " 

"A lightness" that has highlighted "the vulnerability of the system, which has proved

". This is what emerges, according to what LaPresse learns about the hearing of the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, at Copasir. The minister would have highlighted how the event arose, in its gravity, from a simple opening of an email private, a procedure that in these cases weakens the entire security system. The owner of the Interior Ministry did not go specifically "as the investigations are still ongoing and in the initial phase", also because the technical aspect will be addressed - it is explained - during the hearing with the Director General of Dis.

The extent of the attack is still to be defined, as well as the repercussions on other public services and for this reason the president of Copasir Adolfo Urso summoned the

Elisabetta Belloni to get a broader and more detailed picture of the situation. The hearing is set for Wednesday afternoon.