Keeping secrets is hard. Kids know it. Celebrities know it. National security experts know it, too. And it’s about to get even harder. There’s always someone who wants to get at the juicy details we’d ...

Chinese researchers at Shanghai University say they’ve inched towards cracking military-grade encryption — with the help of a quantum computer. SPNs are used in algorithms tasked with protecting ...

A group of Chinese researchers has claimed to be able to break a widely used encryption scheme with a quantum computer that already exists, creating a possible boon for surveillance and a crisis for ...

The U.S. government has a message for just about everyone with a computer: Russia is still using some of the oldest tricks in the hacker book to break into your systems. The Russian military ...

For years, the conversation around quantum computing and cryptocurrency has been dominated by a single, breathless question: Will a quantum breakthrough kill Bitcoin? The fear is simple enough.

Carol, a Smith alum, had a big problem. She was sitting on a trove of old photos of her student days. Her plan was to donate them to the Smith College special collections. But her computer, Dell’s ...

GAINESVILLE – Hackers broke into the computer network of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in Tallahassee, which runs the state's juvenile detention centers and programs to steer troubled ...

Altcoin activity remains narrow, yet a few older assets are standing out. Decred is trading around $42.70 after rising by about 106% in a day. Dash is following at $133, up 54%, while Internet ...

Twenty years ago, when I was at Princeton, I and all of my fellow graduate students in physics were required to pass two foreign-language achievement tests in order to get our degrees. Since then, ...