The breakthrough addresses concerns that powerful quantum computers could eventually crack encryption standards to leave vulnerable financial systems, government communications, health data and media.

A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...

The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and ...

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Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

The US government has accused two individuals of breaching 10 major companies, stealing their sensitive data, and then either extorting the firms for money, or selling the stolen data on the dark web.

Former Michigan assistant coach Matt Weiss is facing charges for allegedly hacking into college students' personal accounts to steal sexually explicit photos. Mark J. Rebilas / Imagn Images Security ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Documents show that a former Disney employee who was accused of hacking the computer system Walt Disney World uses to create its menus has pled guilty in Federal Court. Michael Scheuer ...

Ex-Michigan offensive coordinator Matt Weiss asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a portion of the computer hacking case against him, accusing the government of relying on an untested legal ...

The farcical story began on February 12, when a 40-year-old man from Ridderkerk contacted the police in relation to a ...