Privacy is not a modern invention; it is part of the human condition of trust, dissent, and intimacy. Every society has ...

A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough machine may be built much sooner than previously thought ...

The rise of cloud storage has made traditional USB drives all but obsolete, but could there still be a reason to keep an ...

Quantum advances have not broken heavy-duty encryption yet, but seem well on their way to expose what we’ve long kept ...

Google says Gmail end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is now available on all Android and iOS devices, allowing enterprise users to read and compose emails without additional tools. Starting this week, ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of ...

Overview: Quantum computing uses ideas from quantum mechanics to solve complex problems much faster than traditional computer ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The forthcoming era of quantum computers holds a lot of promise. Qubits—the quantum version of classical bits—have the potential to solve immensely ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Current quantum computers don’t possess enough qubits to crack classical encryption methods, but a flurry of new research suggests that the threshold ...