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    The world’s first humanoid robot store has opened in China. Will we be ready?
    Carolina Vivianti | innovation | 30/01/2026

    At ten o’clock in the morning, in Wuhan, two 1.3-meter-tall humanoid robots begin moving with precision. They turn, jump, and follow a rhythm. It’s the opening signal for the country’s first 7S humano...

    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...

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    Zero-Day Exploits on the Rise: How to Protect Your Network Cyber News

    Zero-Day Exploits on the Rise: How to Protect Your Network

    Until recently, zero-day vulnerabilities seemed like exotic artifacts from the world of special operations and espionage . Now they're a...
    Pietro Melillo - January 2, 2026
    Long-Lived Technologies: COBOL, C, SQL, and Legacy Systems Cyber News

    Long-Lived Technologies: COBOL, C, SQL, and Legacy Systems

    While the industry debates which neural network is the “smartest” and which framework is the “most modern,” decades-old technologies continue...
    Redazione RHC - January 2, 2026
    PollyPolymer Revolutionizes Robotics with 3D Printed Flexible Components Cyber News

    PollyPolymer Revolutionizes Robotics with 3D Printed Flexible Components

    When XPeng unveiled its new humanoid robot this year, the spectacle was designed to inspire disbelief. The robot's movements were...
    Redazione RHC - January 2, 2026
    GlassWorm Malware Targets macOS via Open VSX Extensions Cyber News

    GlassWorm Malware Targets macOS via Open VSX Extensions

    A new wave of malicious extensions has been discovered in the Open VSX extension store, used by millions of developers....
    Massimiliano Brolli - January 2, 2026
    AI Job Losses: Geoffrey Hinton Warns of Widespread Unemployment by 2026 Cyber News

    AI Job Losses: Geoffrey Hinton Warns of Widespread Unemployment by 2026

    Computer science professor Geoffrey Hinton , one of the founders of modern artificial intelligence technologies, has claimed that AI could...
    Redazione RHC - January 2, 2026
    NVIDIA Tegra X2 Vulnerability: Millions of Devices at Risk Cyber News

    NVIDIA Tegra X2 Vulnerability: Millions of Devices at Risk

    At the 39th annual Chaos Communications Conference (39C3) , security researcher Amber Katze, 22, announced that she has completely analyzed...
    Redazione RHC - January 1, 2026
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    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...

    - December 13th, 2025

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    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...

    - December 13th, 2025

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    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...

    - December 13th, 2025

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    Apple Patches Critical WebKit Vulnerabilities in iOS Update

    Following the discovery of two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the WebKit browser engine, Apple has urgently released security updates for iPhone and iPad users. Both vulnerabilities reside in WebKit ,...

    - December 13th, 2025

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    Kali Linux 2025.4: Discover the Power of Wayland and Enhanced Security Tools

    The recent 2025.4 release of Kali Linux has been made available to the public, introducing significant improvements to the GNOME, KDE, and Xfce desktop environments . From now on, Wayland...

    - December 12th, 2025

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    French Interior Ministry Hit by Cyberattack, Data Security at Risk

    The French Ministry of the Interior's email servers were targeted by a cyberattack. The hacker managed to access "several files," but no "serious compromise" has been detected so far. The...

    - December 12th, 2025

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    IRS.GOV: alleged data breach affects the accounts of 18 million citizens

    An alleged database containing sensitive information on 18 million U.S. citizens over 65 has appeared for sale on a popular dark web forum. The advertiser, who uses the pseudonym "Frenshyny,"...

    - December 12th, 2025

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    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,...

    - December 12th, 2025

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    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...

    - December 12th, 2025

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    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...

    - December 12th, 2025

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