Mario Santella

In 2025, reverse image search barely works. Not because the tech broke, but because mainstream engines now withhold results to comply with stricter privacy interpretations. Faces, license plates, geotagged locations, even building entrances: if an image might contain something “sensitive,” Google and Bing often return nothing. Even when the source is fully public (a company…

Let’s talk about security. Everyone’s obsessed with complex zero-day exploits and APTs. But in the real world, the most damaging breaches often come from the dumbest, most obvious holes you can imagine. We found one. It was a doozy. The Scenario: A Ticking Time Bomb Our client? A sharp web agency that manages a portal…

You need to assess an Italian company — fast. Here’s the workflow: start with Tesari AI (paid), then layer free, public checks. Total time: ~10 minutes. All open source. Step 0: Tesari AI — your starting point Enter the company info like this: Tesari will return a very long report: Legal structure (Registro Imprese) PEC,…

Your company has an AI usage policy. Great. But a policy on paper doesn’t stop attackers, it only passes audits. Because the real risk isn’t that someone uses DeepSeek or other low-friction AI tools. The real risk is that they use it with a company email, a personal Gmail, or even a “work alias” like…

In the ever-evolving world of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), automation is now essential — especially when investigations span emails, domains, usernames, phone numbers, and more. Today I’m taking a look at Sherlockeye, a web-based AI-powered platform designed to speed up reconnaissance and threat analysis activities. Here’s my take based on real usage and testing. 🧪…

Trapped in the Social Media Matrix Let’s be honest. Social media is like the modern world’s version of The Truman Show—except we don’t realize it. We’re happily scrolling through walled gardens, soaking up the endless (and often mindless) content the algorithm serves up like we’re in some all you can eat buffet for our attention….

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What is Flet? Flet is a Python-based framework that enables developers to build interactive multi-user web, desktop, and mobile applications without prior experience in frontend development. Flet controls, which are based on Google’s Flutter, allow developers to create a UI for their programs with ease. Flet simplifies the Flutter model by combining smaller widgets into…

Just in case you never heard about it before StackBlitz is a gorgeous online code editor that allows you to work with your preferred stack. With just one click you cna configure and deploy to node, python and many other environments.Absolutely worth a try -> stackblitz.com  

Time is precious, and I’m pretty sure you don’t want to waste it with the average 20 seconds ads for a single videos requested to youtube. This is unfairly exagerate nowadays, but I have a solution: just type this in your browser: invidio.us It will shows all the invidio.us instances, click one of these to open…