quantum computing

NIST Report Highlights Urgency Of Further Work In Post-Quantum Cryptography

Large Quantum Computers Will Break All Public Key Schemes Currently In Use The National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST) recently released a new report...
ai

Fujitsu Leverages AI To Alleviate Urban Security Positioning Problems

Plans To Commercialize This Technology As Part of Its AI Technology Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and the University of Electro-Communications today announced the development of a...
watson

IBM Wants To Tackle Cybersecurity With AI; To Collaborate With Eight Universities

Beta production deployments to begin later this year IBM Security (NYSE: IBM) today announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of the company's...
twitter

Twitter Restricts Feds From accessing Data Mining Service

Twitter Inc. has barred U.S. intelligence agencies from accessing a service that that provides real-time alerts for breaking news such as natural disasters, terrorist...
hack

Hundreds of Millions of Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Passwords Hacked: Traded Online

Information pertaining to millions of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google email accounts have appeared online where a Russian hacker was trying to sell them on...
hacker

93.6% Of Resources Targeted By DDoS Attacks Located in 10 Countries – New Kaspersky...

The “cream” of the cybercriminal community has gone back to the good old methods of attacks at the application level in the first quarter...
data

OpenSSL Addresses Vulnerabilities In Security Advisory

In what it categorized from “high severity” to “low severity,” OpenSSL released security updates today which address vulnerabilities in previous versions. Exploitation of one...
whatsapp

WhatsApp Founder Defends End-To-End Encryption; Says No Compromise

WhatsApp co-founder and CEO, Jan Koum has slammed the recent ruling of a Brazilian judge who blocked access to the app in the Latin...
twitter

Judge Partially Dismisses Twitter’s Lawsuit To Disclose Government Requests For Information

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, Calif. on Monday partly dismissed a lawsuit filed by Twitter in which the social media company...
defense

DARPA Seeks Ultra-Secure, Self-Destructing Messaging System

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a request for proposals posted on a DOD Web page in which it requires “a...