An apparently harmless letter delivered by the postman, which appears to come from an authoritative body such as the Italian Post Office, contains a QR code, i.e. a square identification code made of black and white “pixels”. Known as “postman scam”this fraud uses social engineering to trick users into downloading a fake app containing malware by scanning the malicious QR ...
The floppy disk containing the Morris Worm, at the Computer History Museum. The evening of November 2, 1988an unprecedented event shook the Internet. A malicious program, known as Morris Wormsquickly spread through thousands of computers around the world, crashing systems and dramatically slowing digital communications. It was one of the first worms distributed via the Internet and the first to ...
Imagine a world where i colors are grouped together and reduced to a few categories: “light”, “dark” and, at most, red. Here, this world is not fantasy, but a real reality in some cultures. In fact, even if the people who belong to these peoples (like the Dani of Papua New Guinea or the Inuit, for example) are able to ...
Between the mid-fourteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century (but these extremes can vary greatly) the average temperatures, especially in some regions of the world such as Europe, saw a substantial decrease, so much so that agricultural harvests were difficult and some rivers such as the Thames froze. or the Tiber – this climatic period in the history of our planet ...
THE Kurds (کورد, “Kurd” in the Kurdish language) are a Middle Eastern people of Iranian origin who live mainly in the mountains of a vast area of Middle East (which takes its name from them “Kurdistan”) currently divided between 5 states: Türkiye, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Armeniawhich extends north and north-east of Mesopotamia. Different community however, they are also found ...
How many times have we heard or asked the question “Which came first, the chicken or the egg“? Science may finally have the answer and it comes from a prehistoric single-celled organism, the Chromosphaera perkinsii, found in Hawaii and studied by researchers at the University of Geneva: the egg was born first! Intuitively, we could have already thought that the ...
Tarrare illustration by George Cruikshank How many times when we were hungry did we say to ourselves “I’m so hungry!”? But perhaps it would be more correct to say that one is “hungry like Tarrare“. We are not talking about a fictional character like giants Gargantua and Pantagruel of the well-known French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelaisbut of a historical figure ...
When winter arrives, one of the main concerns for many of us is how to keep the house warm, hopefully without having to spend too much to achieve this. Two of the most popular options for heating are gas boilers And wood or pellet stoves. Both have their pros and cons, and the choice depends on various factors, including the ...
In many religious traditions the veneration of animals it not only survives, but is deeply intertwined with how people interpret the world and their place in nature. In particular, theHinduism associates some animals with deities, considering them sacred and worthy of respect. There cowfor example, is a symbol of life, abundance and compassion, and its sacredness is a pillar of ...
If by accessing WhatsApp you noticed a “threatening” alert on your smartphone informing you of the need to free up space, know that you are not alone. This is, in fact, a rather common scenario: especially if you use this messaging app to exchange multimedia content, which is notoriously “heavier” than simple text, WhatsApp can take up a lot of ...