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VUSec researchers have presented a paper titled “Training Solo,” which challenges the fundamental principles of protection against Spectre-v2 attacks. Previously , the domain isolation mec...
Today we’ll meet another hacker from the past. He’s Vladimir Levin, a Russian hacker from St. Petersburg (Владимир Леонидович Левин), who became famous for breaking ...
On September 20, we reported on a cyberattack that paralyzed several European airports, including Brussels, Berlin, and London Heathrow. This was a supply chain attack that exploited the compromise of...
The Romanian penitentiary system has found itself at the center of a major digital scandal: inmates in Târgu Jiu hacked the PNA’s internal platform and, for several months, managed data on pris...
Today, we live in a world where WiFi is a fundamental necessity, but how did this technology, now taken for granted, come about? How did it then develop into the network we now use every day? In this ...
Xlibre and Wayback: Two Linux Projects Clash Over X.org’s Legacy
A study shows a shocking truth: 98.5% of passwords are weak!
Operation Eastwood: Pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) dismantled
What is Doxing and How Can It Change Your Online Life?
What are Botnets? A Journey Through Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and OSINT
What is a zero-day and the risk of targeted cyber attacks
Xlibre and Wayback: Two Linux Projects Clash Over X.org’s Legacy
Redazione RHC - July 17th, 2025
The Linux ecosystem is once again in the spotlight, with a fork of the good old X.org taking center stage. The new project, called Xlibre, was launched by German developer...
A study shows a shocking truth: 98.5% of passwords are weak!
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
In a new analysis based on 10 million compromised passwords, Specops has demonstrated how vulnerable corporate networks remain to human error. All passwords were extracted from a list of over...
Operation Eastwood: Pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) dismantled
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
As part of the investigations conducted by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, the Postal Police has completed important investigative activities in...
What is Doxing and How Can It Change Your Online Life?
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Doxing (short for "dropping dox," sometimes written as Doxxing) is the act of revealing personal information about someone online, such as their real name, home address, workplace, phone number, financial...
What are Botnets? A Journey Through Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and OSINT
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
The Internet provides a sea of information. We often talk on RHC about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), i.e. those intelligence disciplines that deal with the...
What is a zero-day and the risk of targeted cyber attacks
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
Zero-day vulnerabilities are one of the greatest cybersecurity risks for organizations. These are unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities that attackers exploit to penetrate computer systems and compromise data security. In this...
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