The breakthrough addresses concerns that powerful quantum computers could eventually crack encryption standards to leave vulnerable financial systems, government communications, health data and media.

Federal alert urges heightened monitoring after intercepted transmission believed to originate in Iran following the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Washington, DC – U.S. intelligence officials ...

MIAMI, March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As artificial intelligence fuels a surge in convincing deepfakes and quantum computing advances toward real-world use, Florida International University (FIU) ...

Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that ...

The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in ...

The U.S. Air Force F-15E fighters were shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses in a "friendly fire" incident. According to CENTCOM, ...

The death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 has reportedly triggered a series of covert communications that have raised concerns among intelligence agencies across the world.

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Cold War-Era Number Broadcast Reappears in Iran Conflict U.S. employs shortwave radio to contact Iranian spies amid communication blackouts ...

Quantum computers will eventually pose a problem to standard encryption, warns Wakako Maeda, a manager in the quantum cryptography team at NEC Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. As far back as 1994, it was ...

Summary: Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) is a strategy where attackers collect encrypted data today and store it until future quantum computers can decrypt it. While cryptograph ...