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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...

Skynet is coming: the malware that attacks Artificial Intelligence!

An unusual example of malicious code has been discovered in a real computing environment, which for the first time recorded an attempt to attack not classical defense mechanisms, but directly artificial intelligence systems. We are talking about the prompt injection

Pope warns: “AI is not the devil, but it can become one without ethics”

The head of the Catholic Churchhas expressed concern about the way today’s children and adolescents interact with digital technologies. In his viewthe abundance of information available through neural networks and other intelligent systems can seriously affect the mental and intellectual

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

- July 1st, 2025

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...

  

Cyberattacks on NFC contactless payments increase, new global threat

- June 30th, 2025

A new series of cyber attacks has been detected by ESET specialists, which sees the contactless payments sector with NFC technology as the protagonist. This type of attack was initially...

  

The Race to 0day! China Advances in Offensive Cyberpower, While the US Is Forced to Chase

- June 30th, 2025

China's growing rise has prompted U.S. officials to strongly emphasize the need to improve its offensive cyber capabilities. However, some doubts remain about the ability to meet the challenge, given...

  

Cyberbullying and Digital Terror: Why Betti’s Comic Makes You Feel Uncomfortable (and That’s a Good Thing)

- June 29th, 2025

When I decided to write this story of Betti, it was certainly not to make a “nice” or “easy” comic, to read on a sunny afternoon at the beach and...

  

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