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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...

Cyber Security: CISA and NSA Recommend Secure Programming Languages

The main US cybersecurity agencies, CISA and NSA, have published a joint document recommending that software developers opt for programming languages considered “memory safe”. These languages are designed to provide protection against critical crashes caused by memory management errors, which

Apple and Google under pressure: German regulator wants to remove DeepSeek

Following the Italian data protection regulator, Germany’s data protection watchdog has now asked Apple and Alphabet subsidiary Google to remove the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s DeepSeek app from their online stores due to concerns about personal data. In a

The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community. Hacking is a journey, not a destination!

- July 1st, 2025

It was at the Tech Model Railroad Club that it all began, we talked about it in a previous article, that famous Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...

  

Discovering Predatory Sparrow: Identity, Goals, and Digital Arsenal of the Mysterious Threat Actor

- July 1st, 2025

On June 17, 2025, a cyber attack paralyzed Bank Sepah, one of Iran's major financial institutions. The attack was claimed by the Predatory Sparrow group, already known for its destructive...

  

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

- July 1st, 2025

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....

  

Famous Hackers: The Story of Gary McKinnon.

- July 1st, 2025

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....

  

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