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The ransomware landscape is changing. The most exposed actors—LockBit, Hunters International, and Trigona—have paid the price for overexposure, including international operations, infiltrations, d...
A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-9501, has been discovered in the popular WordPress plugin W3 Total Cache . This vulnerability allows the execution of arbitrary PHP commands on the server without au...
Exactly 40 years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0 , the first version of Windows, which attempted to transform the then-personal computer from a machine with a monotonous comm...
In recent months, a new cyber operations infrastructure has been developing in the United States, in which automated agents are becoming not just a support tool, but a full-fledged participant in offe...
The scale of the leak, described by a team from the University of Vienna , demonstrates how dangerous the familiar contact search function of popular messaging apps can be. WhatsApp has always emphasi...
Discovering Tor Browser: The Digital Fortress for Online Privacy
Virtual Private Network (VPN): What It Is, How It Works, and Why
Rare Earths: What They Are and Why They Matter More Than Oil in Today’s World
Let’s discover injections explained in a simple way
A journey into the world of OT/ICS: What are SCADA servers?
Quishing: What it is, how it works, and how to protect yourself
Discovering Tor Browser: The Digital Fortress for Online Privacy
Raffaela Crisci - November 15th, 2025
Tor Browser (short for The Onion Router) is a free, open-source web browser designed specifically to protect users' online privacy. Using a network of servers distributed around the world, Tor...
Virtual Private Network (VPN): What It Is, How It Works, and Why
Redazione RHC - November 15th, 2025
A VPN , short for Virtual Private Network, is a system that allows you to establish a secure and private connection over a public network, such as the Internet ....
Rare Earths: What They Are and Why They Matter More Than Oil in Today’s World
Redazione RHC - November 15th, 2025
We often hear about the so-called "Rare Earths". This is a set of seventeen metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides on the periodic table , plus scandium and yttrium...
Let’s discover injections explained in a simple way
Davide Cavallini - November 15th, 2025
Good morning everyone. I'm Davide Cavallini, a web developer and penetration tester. Today I'm going to talk about injections. There are various types, but what does it conceptually mean to...
A journey into the world of OT/ICS: What are SCADA servers?
Redazione RHC - November 15th, 2025
The world of OT (Operational Technology) and ICS (Industrial Control Systems) is closely related to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. In industrial automation, SCADA systems play a fundamental...
Quishing: What it is, how it works, and how to protect yourself
Redazione RHC - November 15th, 2025
Quishing is an emerging form of cyberattack that combines traditional phishing with the use of QR codes , tools now familiar to many. The term " quishing " is a...
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