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For nearly 30 years, the cybersecurity community has known that a quantum computer of sufficient size and sophistication—if such a machine were ever built—could be used to undermine the security of ...

Achieving computer security is a hard problem because it’s a negative goal, according to MIT Professor Nickolai Zeldovich in the online course “Tackling the Challenges of Big Data,” which runs through ...

Cisco Systems is trying out a new experimental cipher aimed at reducing the bandwidth and IT storage overhead for some web applications. “Traditional block ciphers work on fixed blocks of data—as an ...

TL;DR: Two independent teams of university researchers have unveiled separate methods for bypassing the protections that Intel and AMD promote as critical defenses for securing cloud workloads.

As CTO at Donoma Software, Beena Jacob leads R&D for next-generation continuous encryption solutions targeting enterprise security markets. For the past few decades, cybersecurity defense strategy has ...