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Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026. The fifth edition in Rome on Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th.

The Red Hot Cyber Conference is back! After the great success of the third and fourth editions, the free annual event created by the RHC community is back! An event designed to bring young people clos...

Patriotic Code: From DDoSia and NoName057(16) to CISM, the algorithm that shapes youth for Putin

In February 2025 we had already observed the functioning of DDoSIA, the crowd-hacking system promoted by NoName057(16): a client distributed via Telegram, DDoS attacks against European targets, reward...

Artificial Intelligence: History, Technology, Ethics, Regulations, and the Future

Artificial intelligence (AI) is software that can generate output (i.e., content, predictions, decisions, recommendations) capable of interacting with the environment and according to human objectives...

What are penetration tests, why are they done, who performs them, and the benefits for organizations.

Penetration testing is an increasingly widespread practice in the field of cybersecurity. It is a real simulation of a cyber attack, conducted by a team of security experts, in order to identify and a...

What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Let’s find out how to protect your online identities.

How does a large organization with millions of user credentials circulating between production servers, web applications, mobile apps, and workstations, connecting to countless profiles, keep proper r...

Sophos fixes five vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall, two of which are rated critical

Sophos recently announced the fixes for five independent security vulnerabilities found in its firewalls, some critical and others high and medium. The vulnerabilities have been fixed via automaticall...

What is Secure Code Development? Discovering an essential practice in cybersecurity.

In the previous article on Patch Management, we started talking about 4 fundamental pillars in the world of Cybersecurity. These four pillars are Patch Management, Hardening, Secure Code Development, ...

Vulnerability in 7-Zip: Attackers can perform denial-of-service attacks

A critical security flaw related to memory corruption has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip archiver. This vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to cause denial-of-service conditions by creat...

What are Side Channel Attacks? How they work and how to defend data from cyber threat physics.

Side Channel Attacks represent a sophisticated category of cyber threats that focus on weaknesses in security systems. These attacks differ from traditional techniques based on brute force or software...

What is cyber hacktivism? History, motivations, hacking, consequences, and evolution.

The term “hacktivism” is a combination of the English terms “hacking” and “hacktivism” and was coined to describe the use of computer hacking for political or socia...

Featured Articles

Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026. The fifth edition in Rome on Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th.

Di Redazione RHC - 23/07/2025

Patriotic Code: From DDoSia and NoName057(16) to CISM, the algorithm that shapes youth for Putin

Di Simone D'Agostino - 23/07/2025

Artificial Intelligence: History, Technology, Ethics, Regulations, and the Future

Di Redazione RHC - 23/07/2025

What are penetration tests, why are they done, who performs them, and the benefits for organizations.

Di Redazione RHC - 22/07/2025

What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Let’s find out how to protect your online identities.

Di Redazione RHC - 22/07/2025

Alleged Data Breach of the United States Department of Defense and National Security Agency

Pietro Melillo - July 11th, 2024

Recently, alarming news has emerged on a well-known underground forum regarding alleged data breaches of the United States Department of Defense and the National Security Agency (NSA). The announcements, posted...

New Ransomware Group “Vanir Group”: Three Victims Immediately in Their Data Leak Site

Pietro Melillo - July 10th, 2024

A new ransomware group, calling themselves "Vanir Group," has recently made its debut in the cybercrime landscape. This group has quickly garnered attention for the aggressiveness and professionalism of their...

Meow ransomware claims attack in its Data Leak Site at HPE giant

Pietro Melillo - July 10th, 2024

Introduction Today, the ransomware gang known as Meow has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the multinational giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The claim was published on their Data Leak...

The Threat Actor 888 claimed a compromise against Microsoft

Pietro Melillo - July 10th, 2024

On July 9, 2024, a user known as "888" posted on BreachForums claiming to have leaked sensitive data of Microsoft employees. This alleged breach has exposed personal information of 2,073...