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MITRE has released its ranking of the 25 most dangerous software vulnerabilities predicted for 2025, based on data collected through the National Vulnerability Database. These vulnerabilities were ide...
The prospect of a four-day workweek, with a resulting three-day long weekend, may not be far off. This is according to Christopher A. Pissarides , a British-Cypriot economist and Nobel Prize winner, w...
The recent 2025.4 release of Kali Linux has been made available to the public, introducing significant improvements to the GNOME, KDE, and Xfce desktop environments . From now on, Wayland will be the ...
An alleged database containing sensitive information on 18 million U.S. citizens over 65 has appeared for sale on a popular dark web forum. The advertiser, who uses the pseudonym “Frenshyny,” clai...
A recent study by Datadog Security Labs reveals an ongoing operation targeting organizations using Microsoft 365 and Okta for single sign-on (SSO) authentication. This operation uses sophisticated tec...
North Korean Hackers on the Payroll: How Companies Paid Salaries to North Korean IT Specialists
The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind
Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”
The History of FreeBSD
HoneyPLC: the new honeypot that revolutionizes the defense of industrial plants
Italian Scientists: Federico Faggin, the Italian who invented the microprocessor.
North Korean Hackers on the Payroll: How Companies Paid Salaries to North Korean IT Specialists
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
The US Department of Justice has announced the discovery ofa large-scale scheme in which fake IT specialists from the DPRK obtained jobs at American companies by posing as citizens of...
The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind
Massimiliano Brolli - July 1st, 2025
Author: Massimiliano Brolli, Pietro CornelioPublishing Date: 11/01/2021 Open source software is so present and integrated into our daily lives today that it would be difficult to think of a world...
Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
“Hacktivism, a special message of hope." Thus begins the "Hacktivism Declaration", published on July 4, 2001 by the famous hacker group Cult of the dead Cow (also called cDc or...
The History of FreeBSD
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
We have often talked about Linux and the open source world, Windows and proprietary software and operating systems in general. But starting from the seed of Ken Thompson's Unix, many...
HoneyPLC: the new honeypot that revolutionizes the defense of industrial plants
Redazione RHC - July 1st, 2025
Industrial Control Systems (ICS), critical to the operation of critical infrastructure such as power, water and transportation networks, are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In this context, the article HoneyPLC: A...
Italian Scientists: Federico Faggin, the Italian who invented the microprocessor.
Redazione RHC - June 30th, 2025
Among the illustrious Italian scientists, creators of cutting-edge technological innovations (we have already talked about Per Giorgio Perotto and Leonardo Chiariglione), Federico Faggin, the Italian who designed the first microprocessor,...
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