Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has raised a serious alarm for the cryptocurrency world: there’s a 20% chance that quantum computers could break current cryptographic systems by 2030. While this ...

Key takeawaysButerin sees a nontrivial 20% chance that quantum computers could break current cryptography before 2030, and he argues that Ethereum should begin preparing for that possibility.A key ...

In April 2002, hackers broke into the payroll database for the state of California. For more than a month, cybercriminals rooted around in the personal information of 265,000 Golden State employees, ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department, the lead U.S. agency for fighting cyber threats, suffered more than 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and other computer security problems over ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new study published in the journal AVS Quantum Science describes the necessary conditions. The research team created a tool to determine how big a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In cybersecurity, the most dangerous crises often arrive slowly enough to be ignored. For ...

If a powerful quantum computer derived a private key from a visible public key, an attacker could sign transactions and move assets without the owner's permission. Reuters The race to secure digital ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...