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UK: Strict rules for online age verification. Pornhub and YouPorn will comply.
Starting Friday, adults in the UK who try to access pornographywill have to prove they are over 18, under some of the strictest regulations in the world. The change means that, instead of having to pr...
Operation Checkmate: A major law enforcement coup. BlackSuit has been apprehended!
During a coordinated international operation dubbed Operation Checkmate, law enforcement officials have dealt a major blow to the BlackSuit ransomware group (onion link here, which has fallen into the...
What does a CISO do? Meet the Chief Information Security Officer: a beautiful but demanding position.
How many times have we heard this acronym: CISO? But how many of us don’t know precisely what it means or have little in-depth knowledge of what a Chief Information Security Officer does? This p...
SharePoint and CrowdStrike: Two Faces of the Same Digital Fragility
In recent days, the global digital landscape has been rocked by a cybersecurity bug that affected on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers, exposing thousands of organizations to cyber attacks. These a...
ToolShell: Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Vulnerability Has Been Under Attack Since Early July
According to cybersecurity experts, several Chinese hacker groups are exploiting a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint in their attacks. In particular, it emerged that attackers...
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...
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Starting Friday, adults in the UK who try to access pornographywill have to prove they are over 18, under some of the strictest regulations in the world. The change means that, instead of having to pr...

During a coordinated international operation dubbed Operation Checkmate, law enforcement officials have dealt a major blow to the BlackSuit ransomware group (onion link here, which has fallen into the...

How many times have we heard this acronym: CISO? But how many of us don’t know precisely what it means or have little in-depth knowledge of what a Chief Information Security Officer does? This p...

In recent days, the global digital landscape has been rocked by a cybersecurity bug that affected on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers, exposing thousands of organizations to cyber attacks. These a...

According to cybersecurity experts, several Chinese hacker groups are exploiting a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint in their attacks. In particular, it emerged that attackers...

Alleged Cyber Attack on Sheba Medical Center: Israel’s Largest Hospital
Pietro Melillo - July 16th, 2024
The Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel and ranked ninth in the world, has recently fallen victim to an alleged data breach. A pro-Palestinian hacker group known as...

The Hackers Choice – 30 years of hacking without trying to get rich!
Alessio Stefan - July 16th, 2024
Imagine a time before firewalls and ubiquitous encryption, when the digital frontier was wide open for exploration. Hackers weren't criminals, they were pioneers, fueled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge. ...

Rockstar Games Possibly Victim of a Massive Data Leak!
Pietro Melillo - July 16th, 2024
Recently, an alleged data leak has involved Rockstar Games, one of the world's largest video game producers, famous for titles like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. According to...

Potential Data Leak from Google: 1 Million Records Exposed
Pietro Melillo - July 15th, 2024
Recently, a threat actor claimed to have publicly released one million records scraped from Google, raising significant alarm regarding personal data security. The information appeared on an online forum in...
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