Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large ...

Today’s encrypted data, such as credentials, may no longer remain confidential in the future because the public-key cryptography protecting it will soon be broken by quantum computers. Although no ...

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 ...

[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was ...

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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 ...

Day-to-day communication still happens inside familiar, tried-and-true tools such as email, browsers, and collaboration apps. At the same time, privacy and compliance pressures keep rising. Strong ...

The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening federal systems against quantum-enabled attacks on ...

Jimmy Fallon wasn’t going to let a little heckling stop him from winning the round for his Password teammate. Fallon’s opponent, professional wrestler Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, put “fear in his eyes” to ...

Consumer AMD CPUs will once again offer encryption protections against physical attacks after facing user backlash for silently removing the feature. About a decade ago, AMD added TSME to its high-end ...

Google Password Manager — and many other first-party password managers — are sold as the epitome of convenience. They reduce the friction of getting started, but that convenience often comes at the ...

Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United States, ...