Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...
Security Boulevard

Payouts King Takes Aim at the Ransomware Throne

IntroductionIn February 2022, BlackBasta emerged as a successor to Conti ransomware and quickly rose to prominence. BlackBasta was operational for three years until February 2025 when their internal ...
Microsoft

Building your cryptographic inventory: A customer strategy for cryptographic posture management

Learn how to build a comprehensive cryptographic inventory and strengthen quantum‑safe readiness using Microsoft Security ...
Decrypt

There’s a Way to Make Bitcoin Safe From Quantum Without a Fork, Researchers Say

Research suggests Bitcoin users could defend against future quantum attacks using a transaction design that works within ...
Security Boulevard

Stateless Hash-Based Signatures for AI Model Weight Integrity

You gotta build a "digital twin" of the mess you're actually going to deploy into, especially with stuff like mcp (model context protocol) where ai agents are talking to data sources in real-time.
IEEE

Secure Optimized Hardware IP Design using Key-driven Hash Slicing based HLS Watermarking Integrated with Krill-Herd DSE

Abstract: The problems of intellectual property (IP) piracy and false IP ownership have emerged as a significant concern for the hardware security community. This paper presents a novel low-cost high ...
IEEE

Pipelined Implementation of Secure Hash Algorithm on FPGA for Enhanced Performance

Abstract: This paper presents the implementation and opti-mization of the SHA-256 algorithm on an FPGA platform, specif-ically on the Xilinx Artix-4 DDR board. The main objective is to enhance the ...
Ars Technica

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...