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Theft at the Louvre: The surveillance system’s password “LOUVRE” has put the museum in crisis.
We recently published an in-depth article on the “theft of the century” at the Louvre , in which we highlighted how physical security – access, environmental control, surveillance – is now...
Discover the Dark Web: Access, Secrets, and Helpful Links to the Onion Network
Have you always thought that the Dark Web is frequented by cybercriminals? Have you always thought that the Dark Web is a dangerous and treacherous network? Today we want to dispel this myth and raise...
AWS and Azure Disruption: Vendor Dependence Is a Serious Risk
On October 29, a massive outage of Microsoft ‘s Azure cloud platform caused global disruptions, disrupting business and public services for over eight hours. The incident affected numerous custo...
Windows 7 Shrinks to 69MB: A Minimalist’s Achievement
Windows minimalists have set another record. Enthusiast @XenoPanther has reduced the size of a running copy of Windows 7 to 69 megabytes , smaller than the average mobile app. By comparison, a standar...
OpenAI may have lost $12 billion in its latest fiscal quarter.
Microsoft’s financial report indicates that OpenAI may have lost $12 billion in its latest fiscal quarter. An expense in Microsoft’s earnings report (517.81, -7.95, -1.51%) surprised analy...
The Louvre Theft: When Thieves Taught the World the Physical Pen Test
The event that shook the world on October 19, 2025, was not a natural disaster or a financial collapse, but the sensational theft of Napoleon’s jewels from the Louvre Museum. Beyond its historic...
Starting November 12th, age verification for porn sites will be implemented in Italy. What’s changing?
Starting Tuesday, November 12, 2025, new provisions from the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) will come into force, requiring an age verification system for accessing pornographic w...
AzureHound: The “Legitimate” Tool for Cloud Attacks
AzureHound, part of the BloodHound suite, was born as an open-source tool to help security teams and red teams identify vulnerabilities and escalation paths in Microsoft Azure and Entra ID environment...
Red Hot Cyber launches free real-time CVE Enrichment service
Timeliness is key in cybersecurity. Red Hot Cyber recently launched a completely free service that allows IT professionals, security analysts, and enthusiasts to monitor the most critical vulnerabilit...
Mossad, the rigged supply chain, and intimidated judges
Yossi Cohen, former director of the Mossad, has said publicly two things that usually remain locked away in a room without tape recorders. First, Israel allegedly deployed a global sabotage and survei...
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We recently published an in-depth article on the “theft of the century” at the Louvre , in which we highlighted how physical security – access, environmental control, surveillance – is...

Have you always thought that the Dark Web is frequented by cybercriminals? Have you always thought that the Dark Web is a dangerous and treacherous network? Today we want to dispel this myth and raise...

On October 29, a massive outage of Microsoft ‘s Azure cloud platform caused global disruptions, disrupting business and public services for over eight hours. The incident affected numerous custo...

Windows minimalists have set another record. Enthusiast @XenoPanther has reduced the size of a running copy of Windows 7 to 69 megabytes , smaller than the average mobile app. By comparison, a standar...

Microsoft’s financial report indicates that OpenAI may have lost $12 billion in its latest fiscal quarter. An expense in Microsoft’s earnings report (517.81, -7.95, -1.51%) surprised analy...
RHC interviews LockBit 3.0. “The main thing is not to start a nuclear war”
The Superuser Story – The History of #root
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

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

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...
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