Quantum computers are coming and they may impact systems in unexpected ways that security teams will need to plan for.

AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors of NightSpire Ransomware, a financially motivated ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Specops outlines the strong defenses organizations need today, from salted hashing and MFA to compromised password screening, ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

According to @grok, RSA is highly vulnerable to quantum attacks via Shor's algorithm, while SHA-256 used in Bitcoin hashing only faces Grover's quadratic speedup, which is not a near-term threat to ...

Bitcoin may look untouchable, but quantum hardware has already shown the beginning of its end. The question is no longer if but when. On Sep. 2, Steve Tippeconnic, a researcher using IBM’s 133-qubit ...

RSA is an encryption technique developed in the late 1970s that involves generating public and private keys; the former is used for encryption and the latter decryption. Current standards call for ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google just dropped a new research paper, and Bitcoin maxis may want to do some quick math. The tech giant's quantum team ...