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The Windows 98 Blue Screen of Death That Changed Microsoft’s Plans Cyber News

The Windows 98 Blue Screen of Death That Changed Microsoft’s Plans

It was April 20, 1998. Microsoft was so embarrassed by the iconic Windows 98 blue screen of death on stage...
Redazione RHC - November 11, 2025
The Illicit Distribution of Intimate Images: A Threat to Women’s Freedom Culture

The Illicit Distribution of Intimate Images: A Threat to Women’s Freedom

This is the fourth in a series of articles analyzing gender-based violence in the digital context, in anticipation of November...
Paolo Galdieri - November 10, 2025
Artificial intelligence surpasses humans, but not in every field. Is AGI near or far away? Cyber News

Artificial intelligence surpasses humans, but not in every field. Is AGI near or far away?

According to experts, humanity has entered a new stage in the development of artificial intelligence: an era in which systems...
Luca Vinciguerra - November 10, 2025
Domestic robots and privacy: the hidden price of the automated future Cybercrime

Domestic robots and privacy: the hidden price of the automated future

The home of the future is full of robots. Automated laundries, personal assistants, and small electronic housekeepers are all devices...
Luca Galuppi - November 9, 2025
Sam Altman: “I hope that bad things don’t happen because of technology.” Cyber News

Sam Altman: “I hope that bad things don’t happen because of technology.”

The latest statements by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, regarding the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) are not very encouraging,...
Redazione RHC - November 8, 2025
Rust 1.91: Full Windows support on ARM is here! Cyber News

Rust 1.91: Full Windows support on ARM is here!

Rust has received a major update : version 1.91 officially brings Windows support on 64-bit ARM systems to the same...
Redazione RHC - November 8, 2025
Linux surpasses 3% on Steam: one small step for gamers, one leap for the penguin. Cyber News

Linux surpasses 3% on Steam: one small step for gamers, one leap for the penguin.

Windows 10 lost 3.94% of its users, while Windows 11 gained only 3.18%, and some users chose to abandon the...
Redazione RHC - November 8, 2025
Russian Sandworm hackers target Ukrainian grain industry with wiper malware Cyber News

Russian Sandworm hackers target Ukrainian grain industry with wiper malware

Russian Sandworm hackers use wiper malware against the Ukrainian grain industry. Ukraine's grain industry has become the latest target of...
Massimiliano Brolli - November 7, 2025
An AI extension for VS Code turns your PC into a digital hostage Cybercrime

An AI extension for VS Code turns your PC into a digital hostage

Secure Annex researchers found a malicious extension in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace extension catalog for VS Code that features...
Redazione RHC - November 7, 2025
Cybersecurity is democratic: the same virus hits multinationals and housewives Cybercrime

Cybersecurity is democratic: the same virus hits multinationals and housewives

The same malware that yesterday blocked the servers of a major bank today encrypts Mrs. Pina's photos on her home...
Fabrizio Saviano - November 7, 2025
Microsoft apologizes to 3 million Australian users for unfair business practices Cyber News

Microsoft apologizes to 3 million Australian users for unfair business practices

Microsoft has apologised to nearly 3 million Australian users and offered them refunds for subscriptions to its new, more expensive...
Redazione RHC - November 6, 2025
Cisco Addresses Critical Vulnerabilities in ASA and Unified Contact Center Express Cyber News

Cisco Addresses Critical Vulnerabilities in ASA and Unified Contact Center Express

Cisco recently announced the discovery of a new type of cyberattack aimed at compromising devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive...
Massimiliano Brolli - November 6, 2025

CVE-2025-55182 React Server Components Vulnerability Exploited

A recent report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) illustrates the chaotic results of this information dissemination, highlighting how savvy adversaries have already gained a foothold within targeted networks....

Top 25 Software Vulnerabilities 2025: MITRE CWE Ranking and Security Tips

MITRE has released its ranking of the 25 most dangerous software vulnerabilities predicted for 2025, based on data collected through the National Vulnerability Database. These vulnerabilities were identified by analyzing...

The Future of Work: 4-Day Week with AI and Tech Advances

The prospect of a four-day workweek, with a resulting three-day long weekend, may not be far off. This is according to Christopher A. Pissarides , a British-Cypriot economist and Nobel...

ARTEMIS Leads in AI-Powered Pentesting, Outperforming Human Experts

Stanford researchers and their colleagues conducted an unusual experiment: they compared the performance of ten professional specialists and a set of autonomous AI agents in a real-world corporate pentest. The...

Amnesty International Launches .onion Site for Secure Access to Human Rights Info

Amnesty International has launched its own website, accessible via the .onion domain on the Tor network, offering a new secure channel for accessing the organization's information and research. The initiative,...

NANOREMOTE Trojan Uses Google Drive for Command and Control

A new multifunctional Windows Trojan called NANOREMOTE uses a cloud file storage service as its command center , making the threat harder to detect and giving attackers a persistent channel...

Microsoft Azure OAuth Attack: ConsentFix Malware Steals Accounts

A new scheme called " ConsentFix " expands the capabilities of the already known ClickFix social media attack and allows Microsoft accounts to be hijacked without a password or multi-factor...

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation with Key Tech Players

The establishment of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a dedicated fund under the auspices of the Linux Foundation , was jointly announced by several leading companies in the field of...

Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI for Sora Video Deal

Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and officially license its characters for use in its Sora video generator. The deal comes amid a heated debate in Hollywood over how...

React Server Components Vulnerability: Update to Prevent DoS Attacks

The React Server component security saga continues this week. Following the patching of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that led to React2shell, researchers have discovered two new vulnerabilities....

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