Quantum decryption may be a decade or more away, but banks, insurers and investment firms must act now to protect sensitive ...

Australia's push for a decryption magic bullet will not undermine "legitimate encryption", and may not need legislation at all, according to Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo.

The day when quantum computers will be able to break conventional encryption is rapidly approaching, but not all companies ...

A request by former President Donald Trump that Apple help law enforcement access the contents of iPhones owned by men who tried to assassinate him is apparently based on a mistaken idea about how ...

Current data encryption techniques may fend off the threat of quantum computing for some time to come, security experts say. In recent years the computational potential of qubits has led many to ...

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

Encryption offers many benefits to improve security, securing the transmission of data for both external and internal network traffic. In general, encryption is gaining wider adoption. According to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Oct. 31, 2024: This story, originally published Oct.

“Shut it down! Shut it all down! And pay them what they are asking!” It was 5:55 AM on May 7, 2021, in Alpharetta, Georgia. Minutes earlier, an employee of The Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks that can absorb huge volumes of water. In recent years, significant progress has been made with so-called "stimuli-responsive" hydrogels ...