When it comes to cybersecurity, are we our own worst enemies? This past week showed us that you can patch software—but you ...

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 ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...

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 ...

A team of researchers in China has unveiled a technique that—theoretically—could crack the most common methods used to ensure digital privacy, using a rudimentary quantum computer. The technique ...