However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

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 ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Future quantum computers will need to be far less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages, banking information and other sensitive data. When you purchase through links ...

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

Google just issued a warning that has great implications for the cybersecurity world: "Q-Day" — the moment when a quantum computer becomes powerful enough ...

Google warns that ‘Q-Day’, when quantum computers can break current encryption, may arrive by 2029, earlier than previously expected. PCWorld reports this threatens RSA and ECC algorithms protecting ...

Quantum advances have not broken heavy-duty encryption yet, but seem well on their way to expose what we’ve long kept ...