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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 ...
Cyberbullying and Digital Terror: Why Betti’s Comic Makes You Feel Uncomfortable (and That’s a Good Thing)
Miniaturized Military Drone, Mosquito-Sized Model Arrives and China Offers It
Cybersecurity, Italy on the podium with four young people. There is also Leonardo already protagonist in the RHC CTF
Cyber Security: CISA and NSA Recommend Secure Programming Languages
Apple and Google under pressure: German regulator wants to remove DeepSeek
A former Australian university student has been accused of hacking Western Sydney University

Cyberbullying and Digital Terror: Why Betti’s Comic Makes You Feel Uncomfortable (and That’s a Good Thing)
Redazione RHC - June 29th, 2025
When I decided to write this story of Betti, it was certainly not to make a “nice” or “easy” comic, to read on a sunny afternoon at the beach and...

Miniaturized Military Drone, Mosquito-Sized Model Arrives and China Offers It
Redazione RHC - June 29th, 2025
In the military sector, the trend to miniaturize drones seems to know no limits, especially when the goal is to operate without being detected. An example of this race to...

Cybersecurity, Italy on the podium with four young people. There is also Leonardo already protagonist in the RHC CTF
Redazione RHC - June 28th, 2025
The first edition of the International Cybersecurity Olympiad ended in Singapore with an excellent result for Italy. Four Italian students reached the podium, winning gold and silver medals in the...

Cyber Security: CISA and NSA Recommend Secure Programming Languages
Redazione RHC - June 28th, 2025
The main US cybersecurity agencies, CISA and NSA, have published a joint document recommending that software developers opt for programming languages considered "memory safe". These languages are designed to provide...

Apple and Google under pressure: German regulator wants to remove DeepSeek
Redazione RHC - June 28th, 2025
Following the Italian data protection regulator, Germany's data protection watchdog has now asked Apple and Alphabet subsidiary Google to remove the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup's DeepSeek app from their...

A former Australian university student has been accused of hacking Western Sydney University
Redazione RHC - June 28th, 2025
New South Wales police have arrested a 27-year-old former Western Sydney University student who had repeatedly hacked into the university's systems, including to obtain cheaper parking. Western Sydney University is...
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