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    Douglas Engelbart was born today: the man who saw and invented the digital future.
    Massimiliano Brolli | Culture | 30/01/2026

    Sometimes, when you think about it, you wonder how we take the world around us for granted. Like, we click, scroll, type, and it all seems so natural, as if it’s always been there. But no, there was s...

    WhatsApp gets a makeover: “Paranoia” mode arrives (and no, it’s not for everyone).
    Silvia Felici | Cyber News | 29/01/2026

    WhatsApp has decided to toughen up. Not for everyone, not always, but when needed. The decision comes against a backdrop of a now-familiar climate: increasing cyber attacks, espionage that no longer m...

    Beware of “I am not a robot”: the malware trap that uses Google Calendar.
    Bajram Zeqiri | Cybercrime | 29/01/2026

    A new threat is lurking, exploiting our greatest weakness: habit. How many times, in fact, do you find yourself clicking on verification boxes without thinking twice? Now, it seems that malicious peop...

    A blow to the heart of cybercrime: RAMP taken offline. The “temple” of ransomware falls!
    Bajram Zeqiri | Cybercrime | 28/01/2026

    The RAMP (Russian Anonymous Marketplace) forum, one of the main hubs of the international cybercrime underground, has been officially shut down and seized by US law enforcement . The news emerged afte...

    Digital Autonomy: France Says Goodbye to Teams and Zoom by 2027
    Silvia Felici | Cyberpolitics | 28/01/2026

    This isn’t the first initiative to emerge on this front recently. Indeed, we’ve heard several of them, one after the other. And it’s almost inevitable: technological autonomy and national security are...

    And let the phishing begin! Microsoft is taking action against a zero-day exploit already exploited in Office
    Pietro Melillo | Cyber News | 27/01/2026

    Once again, Microsoft was forced to quickly fix some flaws. The company has released unscheduled patches for Microsoft Office, addressing a dangerous zero-day vulnerability that has already been explo...

    When Malware Hides in Videos! The PixelCode Technique Breaks the Rules
    Marcello Filacchioni | Cybercrime | 26/01/2026

    PixelCode began as a research project exploring a hidden technique for storing binary data within images or videos . Instead of leaving a plaintext executable, the file is converted into pixel data, t...

    CISA alert: Exploit underway against VMware vCenter. Risk of RCE without authentication.
    Manuel Roccon | Cyber News | 25/01/2026

    The critical vulnerability recently added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs) affects the Broadcom VMware vCenter Server an...

    “I Stole 120,000 Bitcoins”: The Confession of the Bitfinex Hacker Who Now Wants to Defend Cyberspace
    Agostino Pellegrino | Cyber News | 25/01/2026

    The story ofIlya Lichtenstein, the hacker responsible for one of the largest cyber attacks ever carried out against cryptocurrencies, reads like an episode of a TV series, yet it is absolutely real. A...

    NoName057(16) hits Italy 487 times in the last 3 months: the DDoS wave does not stop
    Marcello Filacchioni | Cyber News | 24/01/2026

    Italy has confirmed itself as one of the main targets of the DDoS attack campaign carried out by the hacktivist group NoName057(16) . According to what was declared directly by the collective, our cou...

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    Microsoft Copilot Vulnerability Exposes User Data to Hackers Cyber News

    Microsoft Copilot Vulnerability Exposes User Data to Hackers

    A recently fixed vulnerability allowed attackers to exploit Microsoft Copilot Personal with a single click to steal sensitive user data....
    Redazione RHC - 15 January 2026
    Progress Software Patches LoadMaster, MOVEit WAF Vulnerabilities Vulnerability

    Progress Software Patches LoadMaster, MOVEit WAF Vulnerabilities

    On January 12, 2026, Progress Software Corporation released patches that address two high-severity Command Injection vulnerabilities, which could allow remote...
    Agostino Pellegrino - 15 January 2026
    Fortinet FortiSIEM Vulnerability CVE-2025-64155: Critical Security Update Cyber News

    Fortinet FortiSIEM Vulnerability CVE-2025-64155: Critical Security Update

    A critical security flaw was recently patched by Fortinet through update releases, which significantly impacted FortiSIEM . An unauthenticated attacker...
    Redazione RHC - 15 January 2026
    ARM: The Future of Low-Power Computing and AI Cyber News

    ARM: The Future of Low-Power Computing and AI

    Just look around and you'll almost certainly find a device nearby that uses a processor based on the same design:...
    Redazione RHC - 15 January 2026
    24-Year-Old Hacker Breaches US Supreme Court Database Cyber News

    24-Year-Old Hacker Breaches US Supreme Court Database

    Do you remember the 24-year-old hacker Carmelo Miano and the breaches of the Naples Prosecutor's Office's accounts and computer systems?...
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
    Cyberattack Hits Belgian Hospital AZ Monica, Ransomware Used Cyber News

    Cyberattack Hits Belgian Hospital AZ Monica, Ransomware Used

    In the early morning hours of January 13, one of Belgium's leading hospitals suddenly found itself nearly paralyzed. AZ Monica,...
    Redazione RHC - 14 January 2026
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    PS5 BootROM Key Leaked, Sony’s Security Compromised

    A recent incident saw an anonymous hacker leak a crucial security key used by Sony to safeguard the integrity of the chain of trust in the PlayStation 5 console. This...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    China Achieves Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough with Microchip

    For years, quantum computers have seemed like a futuristic technology: on paper, they can solve problems that classical machines can’t handle in a reasonable time, but in reality they constantly...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Critical GNU Wget2 Vulnerability Exposes Users to File Overwrite Attacks

    A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the popular GNU command-line downloader Wget2 , which allows attackers to overwrite files on the victim's computer without their knowledge or consent. The...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Windows 11 Performance Test: Surprising Results with Windows 8.1

    A comparison test across six generations of Windows was conducted by YouTube channel TrigrZolt , which unexpectedly revealed a clear winner: Windows 8.1. Windows 11, on the other hand, performed...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    PentestAgent: Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI-Powered Tools

    PentestAgent is another new open source project developed by the GH05TCREW group that aims to support penetration testing activities through the use of agents based on language models. The tool...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    US Treasury Removes Sanctions on Intellexa Spyware Developers

    The U.S. Treasury Department unexpectedly removed from its sanctions list three individuals previously accused of ties to Intellexa , the developer of the Predator spyware . The decision was made...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Rue Language: Revolutionizing System Programming with AI

    Veteran software developer Steve Klabnik, who helped create Rust and Ruby on Rails, has started work on a new programming language called Rue . The name may seem ambiguous— it...

    - January 5th, 2026

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    Password Security: The Impact of Human Behavior on Password Strength

    Password security and human behavior are more connected than we think. In previous episodes, we tried to shift our focus: passwords don't just protect systems, they tell stories about people....

    - January 4th, 2026

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    Potential Data Breach at Pickett USA Exposes Critical Energy Infrastructure

    An unknown attacker claims to have hacked Pickett and Associates (Pickett USA), a Florida-based engineering firm, and is now selling a large amount of engineering data related to projects managed...

    - January 4th, 2026

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    Forensic Timeliner: Advanced Digital Forensics Tool for DFIR Analysis

    Forensic Timeliner is a high-performance forensic processing engine designed to support DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response ) analysts in artifact triage and correlation. The tool allows you to quickly...

    - January 4th, 2026

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    WhatsApp gets a makeover: “Paranoia” mode arrives (and no, it’s not for everyone).
    Silvia Felici - 29/01/2026

    WhatsApp has decided to toughen up. Not for everyone, not always, but when needed. The decision comes against a backdrop of a now-familiar climate: increasing cyber attacks, espionage that no longer makes headlines but continues…

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    Beware of “I am not a robot”: the malware trap that uses Google Calendar.
    Bajram Zeqiri - 29/01/2026

    A new threat is lurking, exploiting our greatest weakness: habit. How many times, in fact, do you find yourself clicking on verification boxes without thinking twice? Now, it seems that malicious people have created a…

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    A blow to the heart of cybercrime: RAMP taken offline. The “temple” of ransomware falls!
    Bajram Zeqiri - 28/01/2026

    The RAMP (Russian Anonymous Marketplace) forum, one of the main hubs of the international cybercrime underground, has been officially shut down and seized by US law enforcement . The news emerged after the domain associated…

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    Digital Autonomy: France Says Goodbye to Teams and Zoom by 2027
    Silvia Felici - 28/01/2026

    This isn’t the first initiative to emerge on this front recently. Indeed, we’ve heard several of them, one after the other. And it’s almost inevitable: technological autonomy and national security are becoming an increasingly popular…