Microsoft has finally decided to discontinue the RC4 encryption method that has been supported by default in Windows for 26 years. By eliminating this old technology, which has been the target of ...

Chinese scientists at Shanghai University have determined that a quantum computer from the Canadian firm D-Wave can effectively crack a popular encryption method. The paper details two technical ...

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

Queries and responses to DNS servers that look up IP addresses from domain names such as “gigazine.net” are usually in plaintext without encryption. Therefore, the information on “which domain to ...

Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world’s first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a “real and substantial threat” ...

SecureRF, a data security startup in Westport, Conn., has announced what it calls a breakthrough data security application, which can be used to protect data transmitted by passive or active RFID tags ...

New information has shown that one of the more popular security suites available for Android and iOS is so fundamentally compromised, its claims constitute false advertising. That software suite, NQ ...

Nowadays data breaches aren’t rare shocks – they’re a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our digital lives keep spilling into the open. Git services are especially ...