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AI stymied by energy constraints, innovative space solutions needed Cyber News

AI stymied by energy constraints, innovative space solutions needed

During an interview on the Manifold podcast, Omar Shams, head of the Google Agents project, emphasized that besides chips, the...
Redazione RHC - July 12, 2025
TapTrap Attack: How to Get Yourself to Click Things Even Your Mom Wouldn’t Approve of Cyber News

TapTrap Attack: How to Get Yourself to Click Things Even Your Mom Wouldn’t Approve of

TapTrap exploits user interface animations to bypass Android's permissions system, allowing it to access sensitive data or trick the user...
Redazione RHC - July 11, 2025
AI will end the traditional software industry just as the Internet has changed traditional media. Cyber News

AI will end the traditional software industry just as the Internet has changed traditional media.

Generative AI, including tools like Cursor and ClaudeCode, are dramatically reducing the cost and time of software development. What once...
Redazione RHC - July 11, 2025
Critical Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel: A New Privilege Escalation Cyber News

Critical Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel: A New Privilege Escalation

A critical double-free vulnerability has been discovered in the pipapo set module of the NFT subsystem of the Linux kernel....
Massimiliano Brolli - July 11, 2025
RHC interviews Sector16, one of the most active hacktivist groups of 2025. “Let’s destroy the present for a better future” Cybercrime

RHC interviews Sector16, one of the most active hacktivist groups of 2025. “Let’s destroy the present for a better future”

In recent months, two disturbing episodes have shaken public opinion and the Italian cybersecurity sector. The first concerned an Italian...
RHC Dark Lab - July 11, 2025
AI Agents: The Intelligent Revolution Explained to Everyone Cyber News

AI Agents: The Intelligent Revolution Explained to Everyone

Imagine a digital assistant who not only answers your questions, but also acts for you, plans strategies, learns from its...
Marcello Politi - July 10, 2025
Is the end of state-led cyberspace invasions coming? The 56-page draft prepared by the UN Cyber News

Is the end of state-led cyberspace invasions coming? The 56-page draft prepared by the UN

The eleventh final session of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on cybersecurity opened at the United Nations Headquarters in New...
Sandro Sana - July 9, 2025
Claude Shannon: Father of Cryptography and Founder of the Information Age Cybercrime

Claude Shannon: Father of Cryptography and Founder of the Information Age

Whoever has as a mission, to deal with computer security and therefore also with cryptography, must necessarily pass through the...
Carlo Denza - July 8, 2025
Who are the most famous hackers in history? Cyber News

Who are the most famous hackers in history?

We often talk about hackers, but who are the famous hackers that ever existed? Considered by many as eccentric geniuses...
Silvia Felici - July 8, 2025
Underwater cables and the “cyber war of the seabed”. Between control, geopolitics and technology Cyber News

Underwater cables and the “cyber war of the seabed”. Between control, geopolitics and technology

Author: 5ar0m4n Publishing Date: 11/7/2021 We have often addressed the topic of undersea cables on RHC where we talked about...
Sandro Sana - July 8, 2025
Pig Butchering Scam: How Pig Slaughter Is Becoming an Emotional Addiction Scam Cyber News

Pig Butchering Scam: How Pig Slaughter Is Becoming an Emotional Addiction Scam

In the interconnected labyrinth of the 21st century, where the desire for authenticity and the search for opportunity dance on...
Redazione RHC - July 8, 2025
Human Replatforming! Artificial Intelligence Threatens Half of Jobs Cyber News

Human Replatforming! Artificial Intelligence Threatens Half of Jobs

The chairman of the American car company Ford, Jim Farley, has released a statement sharp on the future of the...
Luca Vinciguerra - July 8, 2025

GPUHammer: Hardware attacks on NVIDIA GPUs lead to compromised AI models

NVIDIA has reported a new vulnerability in its graphics processors, called GPUHammer. This attack, based on the well-known RowHammer technique, allows attackers to corrupt other users' data by exploiting the...

Grok 3: “Adolf Hitler is a German benefactor!” The risk of persistent memory and misinformation

With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Grok 3, GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, the scientific community's focus has shifted from the mere accuracy of responses to their...

Discovering LLM Firewalls: The New Frontier in Adaptive Cyber Security

Over the past 3 years, generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), have revolutionized the way we interact with machines, allowing us to obtain increasingly natural and contextualized responses. However,...

Commodore 64: The return of the best-selling retro computer of all time is now

The record for best-selling desktop computer of all time is still held by the Commodore 64, as certified by the Guinness Book of Records, despite its discontinuation in 1994. However,...

Critical Vulnerability in FortiWeb: Score 9.6 and Unauthorized SQL Commands

A new vulnerability, tracked under CVE-2025-25257, was recently published affecting several versions of Fortinet FortiWeb. This vulnerability could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute unauthorized SQL commands via forged HTTP/S requests....

A RCE vulnerability in Wing FTP Server rated 10 opens the door to 10,000 companies.

Huntress researchers have detected active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Wing FTP Server, just one day after its public disclosure. The vulnerability CVE-2025-47812 has been assigned the highest severity...

AI stymied by energy constraints, innovative space solutions needed

During an interview on the Manifold podcast, Omar Shams, head of the Google Agents project, emphasized that besides chips, the other major limitation to AI development is energy. It's often...

TapTrap Attack: How to Get Yourself to Click Things Even Your Mom Wouldn’t Approve of

TapTrap exploits user interface animations to bypass Android's permissions system, allowing it to access sensitive data or trick the user into performing destructive actions, such as factory resetting the device....

AI will end the traditional software industry just as the Internet has changed traditional media.

Generative AI, including tools like Cursor and ClaudeCode, are dramatically reducing the cost and time of software development. What once cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per token can now...

Critical Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel: A New Privilege Escalation

A critical double-free vulnerability has been discovered in the pipapo set module of the NFT subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a...

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