The Department of War released its first dedicated post-quantum cryptography strategy on Wednesday, June 24 — a 25-page mandate directing every military system, from battlefield communications ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum to federal agencies on Wednesday outlining the steps they need to take to ...

A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. An investigation from Threatdown, the former corporate ...

NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - Shareholders of AES Corp ‌have filed two complaints against the U.S. utility group's planned $33.4 billion sale to a consortium led by BlackRock's Global Infrastructure ...

Discord is now using end-to-end encryption for all voice and video calls across all platforms: desktop, mobile, web and console. It’s been a very long time coming – the company first shared its ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

Meta will disable end-to-end encryption on Instagram starting May 8, 2026. This allows the company to potentially access message content for AI training and advertising. Currently, Signal remains the ...

Powerful quantum computers may be closer than scientists thought. To unleash the technology’s full power, scientists have long thought that quantum computers with millions of quantum bits, or qubits, ...

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more efficient than ever before. By harnessing a 19th-century optics phenomenon ...

TL;DR: Google has dramatically accelerated its timeline for securing its infrastructure against quantum computing threats, setting a 2029 deadline for full readiness – years ahead of most government ...