Why are Russian hackers celebrating Baldoni’s torpedoing?

9 March 20232 years ago babelfish

Facts, reactions, comments and scenarios after the resignation of Roberto Baldoni as director of the National Cybersecurity Agency. Umberto Rapetto's comment

MANTOVANO ALREADY HAS NAMES FOR AFTER BALDONI

Upon hearing yesterday's news that Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano (Delegated Authority for the Security of the Republic) is already ready to present the new General Manager to Copasir for "still warm" approval, we are forced to acknowledge that the Baldoni's abandonment was certainly not a bolt from the blue or that the Government – when it wants – manages to find a replacement for one of the most delicate figures in our country's defense architecture in just a few hours.

KILL HOW MANY SYBER SUPER EXPERTS THERE ARE

The speed with which another specialist was found in a flash (and I clean less, said an advertising spot…) reveals an institutional reactivity that the whole world is bound to envy. Or it's proof that Italy has such an overabundance of cybersecurity super-experts that the surplus could be exported around the world solving a planetary problem.

THE PROFLUVIO OF BLA BLA

Effectively seeing who crowds conventions and workshops (they don't talk about vulgar seminars, conferences or congresses…) on the risk of hackers and viruses, one realizes that there are so many self-styled luminaries of the subject in exuberant quantities that meet the most optimistic expectations.

HOW EASY THE NEW CYBER CZAR IS

There are people who, having managed to install the "app" on the weather forecast, suddenly – like in the Gospel the disciples of Jesus on the day of Pentecost – start talking about the most bizarre hi-tech vulnerabilities and possible inconveniences for those who challenge the 'climate instability without information. There are obsessed gurus who, having managed to recharge their smartphone by hitting the microUSB port straight on the first shot, narrate their experiences of business continuity in energy emergency situations… So what does it take to find a new Cyber Czar?

BALDONI'S LEGACY

I would have thought that celebrating the resignation of Professor Roberto Baldoni was whoever inherits his post and not a few hundred thousand euros of annual salary, but instead…

THE SPINTANE RESIGNATIONS

It seems that the Russian computer pirates who have persecuted Italy in recent times are rejoicing in the exit (go to understand whether voluntary or "push") of the head of the Cyber Agency. Having "sent the ball into the net" a large number of times would have made one think that the hackers were pleased that Baldoni was "in goal". By reversing the classic expression "the team that wins, you don't change", one would be led to think that nobody would want to change the set-up of an opponent formation that can be easily beaten.

DO RUSSIAN HACKERS CELEBRATE?

So why toast and cheer? Perhaps they already know that the next General Manager – chosen with rigorous criteria of competence and experience in the chaotic sector – will be proportional to the cinematic "Paulo Roberto Cotechiño, breakthrough center forward" by the masterful Alvaro Vitali?

Too bad this is not a comedy, but a tragedy.

(Article published on giano.news)

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/cybersecurity/perche-gli-hacker-russi-festeggiano-il-siluramento-di-baldoni/ on Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:35:22 +0000.