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Sophos analysts have discovered a complex malware operation by security experts that uses the popular messaging service WhatsApp to spread banking Trojans, targeting Brazilian banks and cryptocurrency...
A critical vulnerability has been identified in the AMD SEV-SNP hardware security architecture, impacting major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) . This flaw allows malicious hy...
Israeli company NSO Group, developer of the infamous Pegasus spyware , recently came under the control of American investors. A company spokesperson announced that the new funding amounts to tens of m...
Over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie on the ocean floor, long considered solely part of a global telecommunications network. However, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology , r...
The quote, “We’ll definitely build a bunker before we launch AGI,” that inspired the article, was attributed to a Silicon Valley leader, though it’s unclear who exactly he meant by “we.” T...
Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT
LockBit 3.0: making the ransomware Great Again
The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community
Hacking is a Journey, not a Destination
Data Brokers: How Law Enforcement Rely on Inaccurate Data to Supplement Investigations
The “Mother of all Demos”. Douglas Englebart’s Vision of the Future
Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT
Tara Lie - July 7th, 2022
Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie In this exciting story, we will catapult ourselves back to 1958 to MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club and meet Steve Russel, Steve was one...
LockBit 3.0: making the ransomware Great Again
Redazione RHC - July 6th, 2022
LockBit is a major player in the ransomware scene and has contributed heavily for this cyber-crime model to become one of the most popular and imitated in the threats landscape....
The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community
Tara Lie - June 28th, 2022
Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie Hacker culture was brought to life thanks to computer scientist Richard Greenblatt and mathematician Bill Gosper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It...
Hacking is a Journey, not a Destination
Tara Lie - June 16th, 2022
Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 20/07/2020Translator: Tara Lie In this brief article, I will discuss a piece of hacking history: where it all began. Precisely, hacking started in 1958 on...
Data Brokers: How Law Enforcement Rely on Inaccurate Data to Supplement Investigations
Olivia Terragni - June 15th, 2022
Author: Jesse McGraw, alias Ghost ExodusPublication date: 11/06/2022 Government public record databases apparently help law enforcement officials save lives, prevent further crimes from being committed by perpetrators, and also provide...
The “Mother of all Demos”. Douglas Englebart’s Vision of the Future
Tara Lie - May 12th, 2022
Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 12/05/2022Translator: Tara Lie The “Mother of all Demos'' is the name retrospectively used by journalist Steven Levy, in his 1994 book ‘Insanely Great’, to describe a revolutionary...
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