In a paper published Thursday, researchers illustrated how to access a computer's memory and scan the secret encryption keys used to scramble files. The report, titled "Lest We Remember: Cold Boot ...

Quantum computing is still in its infancy, yet the people paid to protect the world’s data are already treating it as a live ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

Quantum computers will break encryption one day. But converting data into light particles and beaming them around using thousands of satellites might be one way around this problem. When you purchase ...

Encryption is the secret sauce that keeps private information private as it travels across the internet. Apps like Apple’s iMessage use it to protect the contents of your communication, as do other ...

Quantum computers won’t be able to break encryption tools in 2024, but that hasn’t stopped security experts preparing for a time when quantum devices will be powerful enough to crack the algorithms ...

Generally available encryption technologies could help some notoriously data-leaky federal agencies protect sensitive information – if they used it. Of 24 major federal agencies watchdogs at the ...

Chinese researchers have successfully used D-Wave‘s quantum annealing systems to break classic encryption RSA, potentially accelerating the timeline for when quantum computers could pose a real threat ...

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...

Imagine a world in which powerful computers can instantaneously break a company’s standard encryption, threatening the most valuable financial data, intellectual property, personal information, and ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...