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Hackers don’t want to save you: they want to erase you.
Di Redazione RHC - 21/09/2025

Hackers are increasingly targeting backups – not systems or servers, but the data that companies retain for a limited period of time so they can recover from attacks. A new study from Apricorn revea...

Two Scattered Spider activists found guilty of TfL cyber attack
Di Redazione RHC - 19/09/2025

Two young men involved in the Scattered Spider group have been charged as part of the National Crime Agency investigation into a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL). On August 31, 2024, TfL was...

Will this latest article “against” ChatControl be absolutely useless?
Di Stefano Gazzella - 18/09/2025

We had already discussed the proposed “ChatControl” regulation almost two years ago, but given the roadmap currently underway, we find ourselves embarrassed to have to discuss it again. It feels l...

RHC interviews ShinyHunters: “Systems can be repaired, but people remain vulnerable!”
Di RHC Dark Lab - 17/09/2025

ShinyHunters is a group of threat actors that gained notoriety after the massive data breach against Salesforce, an incident that led Google to closely monitor them and assign them the code name UNC62...

The Great Firewall in the Spotlight: The Leak Revealing the Industrialization of Chinese Censorship
Di Redazione RHC - 16/09/2025

Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...

The History of the Unix Operating System (Part 2)

Author: Carlo DenzaOriginal Publication Date: 07/10/2021Translator: Tara Lie Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy (USA, 1986, ...
Tara Lie - 31/01/2023 - 23:27

The History of the UNIX operating system (Part 1)

Author: Carlo DenzaOriginal Publication Date: 12/12/2020Translator: Tara Lie This article discusses the history of the Unix operatin...
Carlo Denza - 28/12/2022 - 13:55

Hacker gang OPERA1ER stole $11 million from African companies

Amsterdam, 07.11.2022 — Group-IB has today issued a new report, “OPERA1ER. Playing God without permission,” in collaboration witht...
Redazione RHC - 07/11/2022 - 09:26

The Inventor of the P101 explains to us why Italy is destined to be a perennial “follower”

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 12/12/2020Translator: Tara Lie Pier Giorgio Perotto (for those who do not know of him) was an...
Tara Lie - 06/09/2022 - 17:29

RHC interviews LockBit 3.0. “The main thing is not to start a nuclear war”

Translator: Tara Lie We often talk about the LockBit Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, recently remodelled as LockBit 3.0, which conti...
Tara Lie - 26/07/2022 - 14:23

The Superuser Story – The History of #root

Author: Massimiliano BrolliTranslator: Tara Lie In the beginning there was the Word… Computers, before passing into the era of transistors, were...
Tara Lie - 26/07/2022 - 14:09

The History of the Unix Operating System (Part 2)

- January 31st, 2023

Author: Carlo DenzaOriginal Publication Date: 07/10/2021Translator: Tara Lie Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy (USA, 1986, Paramount Pictures): “The starship ‘U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701’ and its...

  

The History of the UNIX operating system (Part 1)

- December 28th, 2022

Author: Carlo DenzaOriginal Publication Date: 12/12/2020Translator: Tara Lie This article discusses the history of the Unix operating system (OS), a miracle of modern technology. This OS is used across the world, and is...

  

Hacker gang OPERA1ER stole $11 million from African companies

- November 7th, 2022

Amsterdam, 07.11.2022 — Group-IB has today issued a new report, “OPERA1ER. Playing God without permission,” in collaboration withthe researchers from Orange CERT Coordination Center. The report takes a deep dive into financially motivated attacks of...

  

The Inventor of the P101 explains to us why Italy is destined to be a perennial “follower”

- September 6th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 12/12/2020Translator: Tara Lie Pier Giorgio Perotto (for those who do not know of him) was an Italian electronics pioneer. In the 60’s he worked for Olivetti,...

  

RHC interviews LockBit 3.0. “The main thing is not to start a nuclear war”

- July 26th, 2022

Translator: Tara Lie We often talk about the LockBit Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, recently remodelled as LockBit 3.0, which continues to bring important innovations to the ransomware cyber circus. Often these new...

  

The Superuser Story – The History of #root

- July 26th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliTranslator: Tara Lie In the beginning there was the Word… Computers, before passing into the era of transistors, were cyclopean machines - heavy and hungry for electricity. They used thermionic...

  

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