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Intel releases urgent patches for new Spectre variant
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...
Famous hackers: Vladimir Levin and the first online bank robbery.
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 into the servers of the...
Cyber Attack on European Airports: Everest Ransomware Claims Claim
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...
Inmates hack prison: sentences reduced, funds transferred, and unauthorized visits
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 priso...
WiFi: From Marconi’s Origins to the Wireless Network We Know Today
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 ...
Operation SIMCARTEL: 1,200 SIM boxes and 40,000 SIM cards stopped by Europol
On October 10, 2025, Latvian authorities conducted a day of action that resulted in the arrest of five Latvian citizens suspected of running a large-scale cyber fraud network. The operation, dubbed SI...
Nvidia loses 95% of the Chinese AI market! Export restrictions cause its share to plummet
Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, revealed that recent export restrictions have drastically reduced the presence of the company’s AI chips in China , from 95% to virtually nothing. “Four year...
Cyberdrones, radar evasion, and autonomous swarms: Rome, the invisible challenge of Jubilee 2025
Jubilee 2025 in Rome presents a challenge not only for managing millions of pilgrims and tourists, but also for protecting urban airspace. Drones, increasingly widespread and accessible, bring with th...
Bus becomes travelling museum of retro computers in UK
In the UK, father and son Jason and Luke Stoner have transformed an old school bus into a traveling museum dedicated to retro computers and game consoles. The inspiration came when Luke visited the fa...
100 years of Italian Intelligence! Mattarella celebrates the SIM’s centenary at the Quirinale Palace
October 15, 2025 marks an anniversary of exceptional importance in the history of Italian national security: one hundred years since the birth of the Military Information Service (SIM) , the country&#...
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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 ...
Cloudflare Down: DNS 1.1.1.1 went down, causing widespread global outage
Gravity Forms Under Attack: WordPress Plugin Infected with a Backdoor
GPUHammer: Hardware attacks on NVIDIA GPUs lead to compromised AI models
Grok 3: “Adolf Hitler is a German benefactor!” The risk of persistent memory and misinformation
Discovering LLM Firewalls: The New Frontier in Adaptive Cyber Security
The biggest threat from AI? Young people won’t be able to think anymore!

Cloudflare Down: DNS 1.1.1.1 went down, causing widespread global outage
Redazione RHC - July 15th, 2025
Cloudflare has reported temporary issues with its public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1, reported by users around the world. The incident reportedly began on the evening of July 14, 2025, around 10:13...

Gravity Forms Under Attack: WordPress Plugin Infected with a Backdoor
Redazione RHC - July 15th, 2025
The popular WordPress Gravity Forms plugin has suffered a supply chain attack, infecting its official website with a backdoor. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin for creating contact forms, payment...

GPUHammer: Hardware attacks on NVIDIA GPUs lead to compromised AI models
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
NVIDIA has reported a new vulnerability in its graphics processors, called GPUHammer. This attack, based on the well-known RowHammer technique, allows attackers to corrupt other users' data by exploiting the...

Grok 3: “Adolf Hitler is a German benefactor!” The risk of persistent memory and misinformation
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Grok 3, GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, the scientific community's focus has shifted from the mere accuracy of responses to their...

Discovering LLM Firewalls: The New Frontier in Adaptive Cyber Security
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
Over the past 3 years, generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), have revolutionized the way we interact with machines, allowing us to obtain increasingly natural and contextualized responses. However,...

The biggest threat from AI? Young people won’t be able to think anymore!
Redazione RHC - July 14th, 2025
"Now that the genie is out of the bottle, it's impossible to put it back!". How many times have we written these words about artificial intelligence? Now that the genie...
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