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The psychology of passwords starts right here: trying to understand people before systems. Welcome to “The Mind Behind Passwords,” the column that looks at cybersecurity. From a different perspect...
New details emerge from an Amazon Threat Intelligence report that highlight an alarming shift in Russian government-backed cyber operations. High-level 0-day exploits, often attributed to state-sponso...
A new version, 8.8.9, of the popular text editor Notepad++, has been released by its developers, fixing a flaw in the automatic update system . This issue came to light after some users and investigat...
A recent study by SentinelLabs sheds new light on the roots of the hacker group known as “Salt Typhoon ,” which carried out one of the most audacious espionage operations of the past decade. First...
Shannon acts as a penetration tester who doesn’t just report vulnerabilities, but launches actual exploits. Shannon’s goal is to breach your web application’s security before anyone with malicio...
The Illicit Distribution of Intimate Images: A Threat to Women’s Freedom
Vault7 with a Chinese twist: China’s secret global surveillance system exposed
Whisper Leak: The New Side-Channel Attack That Steals Messages with LLMs
QNAP fixes 7 critical NAS bugs discovered at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025
Artificial intelligence surpasses humans, but not in every field. Is AGI near or far away?
Techno-optimism vs. the power of control: are we the greatest threat from AI?
The Illicit Distribution of Intimate Images: A Threat to Women’s Freedom
Paolo Galdieri - November 9th, 2025
This is the fourth in a series of articles analyzing gender-based violence in the digital context, in anticipation of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against...
Vault7 with a Chinese twist: China’s secret global surveillance system exposed
Redazione RHC - November 9th, 2025
Only the flag changes, but the result is always the same. In 2017, WikiLeaks published Vault7 , a leak that exposed the CIA's arsenal: toolkits for penetrating smartphones, smart TVs,...
Whisper Leak: The New Side-Channel Attack That Steals Messages with LLMs
Redazione RHC - November 9th, 2025
Microsoft has announced a new side-channel attack on remote language models. It allows a passive attacker, capable of viewing encrypted network traffic, to use artificial intelligence to determine the topic...
QNAP fixes 7 critical NAS bugs discovered at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025
Redazione RHC - November 9th, 2025
QNAP has fixed seven critical zero-day vulnerabilities in its Network Attached Storage (NAS) operating systems after a group of researchers successfully exploited them at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 , held in...
Artificial intelligence surpasses humans, but not in every field. Is AGI near or far away?
Redazione RHC - November 9th, 2025
According to experts, humanity has entered a new stage in the development of artificial intelligence: an era in which systems no longer simply assist humans , but are able to...
Techno-optimism vs. the power of control: are we the greatest threat from AI?
Olivia Terragni - November 8th, 2025
Imagine a futuristic city split in half: on one side, glittering towers of innovation; on the other, chaos and the shadows of lost control. This isn't a dystopian vision, but...
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