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

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

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 ...

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

The maker of the popular open-source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.

According to the latest Google research, it could take as few as 1,200 logical qubits for a quantum computer to break ...

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

Google LLC today published a paper that indicates a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency. The cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computers were already ...

Quantum computing is widely expected to disrupt modern cryptography. Many of today’s encryption systems rely on mathematical ...

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