Tag: Public Administration
Siti web della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana: il report 2020
A volte ritornano, le statistiche. Trovo infatti interessante osservare, a distanza di qualche anno, i nuovi risultati di vecchie indagini. I siti web della Pubblica Amministrazioni rivestono oggi un ruolo più che mai centrale nell’esperienza…
DNSSEC, Italian Public Administration failing
This is a follow-up from my 2014 article: DNSSEC, unidentified flying object in the sky over Italian Public Administration Five years have passed, but no good news about Public Administration and DNSSEC in Italy. DNNSEC…
Who leads Italian Public Administration websites around by the nose?
There is a phenomenal concentration of power in the hands of a few: Internet has seen growing over the top players during the last twenty years. But I think that when it comes to Public bodies, a public interest…
Email authentication and italian Public Administration: a long way to go
Italian Public Administrations are adopting some e-mail authentication measures like SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) TXT records in their authoritative name servers’ zone file. A little improvement can be…
Reliability of italian Public Administration’s websites: 2015 report
Is it sufficient that the legislator provides “Appropriate levels of security” to make italian Public Administration’s websites safe? Apparently not, since only in 2015 hundreds of Internet pages belonging to public bodies have been violated. According…
Internet e censura nella Pubblica Amministrazione
[Scarica il documento in formato PDF: Antonio Prado, Internet e censura nella Pubblica Amministrazione ] Ricerca sulla inibizione della navigazione dei dipendenti pubblici sul posto di lavoro Sommario Nell’ordinamento italiano è stabilito che gli operatori di rete…
Analysis on poor reputation of the italian Public Administration websites
Websites, spam and blacklists: how do they correlate? Everyone could argue that a broken website can (hacked or not) send junk mail, therefore be marked as spam-sending and as a consequence listed in one or…
Italian Public Administration web sites (in)security: 2014 report
Knowledge is the key. Recently Leandro Gelasi pointed me to an interesting report: 2014 Italian Cyber Security Report about awareness, defense and organization in the Public Sector. That’s mostly a detailed analysis of a 61-questions…
Reverse DNS lookup for Italian Government’s mail exchangers (UPDATES 1-2)
Bleeding edge technology? Definitely not. However, Public Administrations seem to ignore some well known recommendations (RFC 1033, RFC 1912) for their Internet presence and services. This article shows the current status of italian ministries’ (or departments’) mail exchangers: domain,…
HTTPS Zombies among Italian Public Administration’s web sites
Tales of terror: SSL nightmare. Despite the fact that confidentiality, integrity and identity play a key role in the modern Internet, Italian Public Administrations seem to understimate how a HTTPS web site is important to…