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Theft at the Louvre: The surveillance system’s password “LOUVRE” has put the museum in crisis.
Di Redazione RHC - 02/11/2025

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...

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Discover the Dark Web: Access, Secrets, and Helpful Links to the Onion Network
Di Redazione RHC - 02/11/2025

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...

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AWS and Azure Disruption: Vendor Dependence Is a Serious Risk
Di Redazione RHC - 02/11/2025

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...

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Windows 7 Shrinks to 69MB: A Minimalist’s Achievement
Di Redazione RHC - 02/11/2025

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...

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OpenAI may have lost $12 billion in its latest fiscal quarter.
Di Redazione RHC - 01/11/2025

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”

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

Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie In this exciting story, we will catapult ourselves b...
Tara Lie - 07/07/2022 - 17:26

LockBit 3.0: making the ransomware Great Again

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 imitate...
Redazione RHC - 06/07/2022 - 20:33

The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie Hacker culture was brought to life thanks to compute...
Tara Lie - 28/06/2022 - 15:38

Hacking is a Journey, not a Destination

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 20/07/2020Translator: Tara Lie In this brief article, I will discuss a piece of hacking histo...
Tara Lie - 16/06/2022 - 09:03

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...

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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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Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT

- 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...

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LockBit 3.0: making the ransomware Great Again

- 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....

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The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community

- 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...

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Hacking is a Journey, not a Destination

- 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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