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- July 3rd, 2025 - (Posted in Hacking revolution)
The hacker culture is a fascinating subject. It is a rich mine of outlandish innovation, genius and intuition. Of bizarre characters, of fatalistic humor, of memes, but above all culture, engineering and science. But while Linux has its penguin, BSD has its daemon and Perl His camel, what has always...

Navigating the future: a dialogue on human resilience and preservation

Participants: NewPlato: Greetings, esteemed colleagues. Today, we embark on a profound dialogue about the future of humanity, particularly focusing on the cyclical nature of civilizations and the means to preserve our collective well-being. NewAlcibiades, you’ve projected significant challenges around the

Cryptography at Risk: MIT develops a Quantum Algorithm to crack RSA.

Modern encryption methods, such as RSA, are based on the fact that even the most powerful classical computers are not able to quickly decompose a large number into prime factors. However, quantum computers promise to considerably accelerate this process, thanks

Arrest of Pavel Durov: Telegram Founder Detained in Paris

On August 24, 2024, French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, at Le Bourget Airport. Durov, a 39-year-old Franco-Russian citizen, had just arrived from Azerbaijan on his private jet. Accompanied by his bodyguard and a woman,

The Evil Purr – DarkLab Interview to HellCat Ransomware!

- March 30th, 2025

HellCat ransomware appeared in the second half of 2024 with and it has attracted the attentions of analysts thanks to the humor within their public statements. We recall the attack...

  

VanHelsing RaaS: An Expanding Ransomware-as-a-Service Model

- March 22nd, 2025

The ransomware threat landscape is constantly evolving, with increasingly structured groups adopting sophisticated strategies to maximize profits. VanHelsing is a new player positioning itself in the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) market, a...

  

NIST selects second PQC Key Encapsulation algorithm

- March 18th, 2025

The fourth round of the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) competition has selected HQC as a secondary quantum-resilient key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) to...

  

Paragon Spyware – Let’s talk about privacy and governments

- March 18th, 2025

Politics, information technology, and privacy. A triad continually seeking balance with a history of conflict that originates from the introduction of personal computers at the consumer level. Attempts by the...

  

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