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- July 3rd, 2025 - (Posted in Hacking revolution)
The hacker culture is a fascinating subject. It is a rich mine of outlandish innovation, genius and intuition. Of bizarre characters, of fatalistic humor, of memes, but above all culture, engineering and science. But while Linux has its penguin, BSD has its daemon and Perl His camel, what has always...

Famous hackers: the sad story of Jonathan James, aka c0mrade.

He was born on December 12, 1983, in a small village called Pinecrest located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. His father was a computer programmer and his mother was a housewife. Childhood and the C language His interest in computers blossomed

Famous Hackers: The Story of Gary McKinnon.

A few months after the attacks on the World Trade Center, a strange message appeared on a U.S. Army computer: “Your security system is shit” it read. “I am Alone. But I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.”

DuckDuckGo Updates Scam Blocker: Say Goodbye to Online Scams and Fake Sites!

The Scam Blocker tool built into DuckDuckGo browser has been updated to protect against online scams. Now detects fake e-commerce sites, cryptocurrency exchanges, and scareware. DuckDuckGo browser, which is entering public beta for macOS and Windows, blocks all trackers by default, does

The History of FreeBSD

- July 2nd, 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

- July 2nd, 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.

- July 1st, 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,...

  

The first message ever sent over the internet

- July 1st, 2025

Today exchanging a message via WhatsApp or Skype is a normal gesture, which is part of the activities we carry out in our daily lives. In all history books, it...

  

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