The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that steady progress is being made, the chances of CRQCs arriving before 2035 remain ...

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to deliver high‑throughput processing of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The ...

A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered ...

Quantum computers are expected to be built at a size that is commercially useful in a mere few years, from maybe just 2028 to the mid-2030s, depending on the estimate and the exact capacity ...

Every encrypted connection you make online relies on a centuries-old mystery about prime numbers. This is the elegant mathematics behind public key cryptography and why breaking it would take longer ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble ...

Kyber, first observed in circulation as early as September, takes its name from the alternate designation of ML-KEM ...

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, ...

Proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule mark the biggest update to healthcare data security in a decade, but while the ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...