In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble ...
IEEE

Application of AES and RSA Hybrid Algorithm in E-mail

Abstract: In the information age, a number of data are interacted on the Internet every day. It is becoming more and more important to protect the safe transmission of data in the network ...
Ars Technica

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...
Bleeping Computer

VoidStealer malware steals Chrome master key via debugger trick

An information stealer called VoidStealer uses a new approach to bypass Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE) and extract the master key for decrypting sensitive data stored in the browser. The ...
SecurityWeek

Quantum Decryption of RSA Is Much Closer Than Expected

For decades, the quantum threat to RSA and ECC encryption has been tied to Shor’s algorithm and the assumption that we would need million-qubit quantum computers to make it practical. A newly ...
New Scientist

Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...
Morningstar

Vaadin Launches Swing Modernization Toolkit, Enabling Java Teams to Run Desktop Applications in the Browser

TURKU, Finland, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaadin, the leading provider of Java web application frameworks, today announced the general availability of Swing Modernization Toolkit, a solution that ...
TechSpot

Microsoft will soon deprecate the insecure RC4 encryption algorithm

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...
Bleeping Computer

Tor switches to new Counter Galois Onion relay encryption algorithm

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Upadhyay, S. and Gupta, V.K. (2022) A Literature Review on the Concept of Cryptography and RSA Algorithm. International J of Advance and Innovative Research, 9, 237-240.

ABSTRACT: We show that any semiprime number can be factorized as the product of two prime numbers in the form of a kernel factor pair of two out of 48 root numbers. Specifically, each natural number ...
Singularity Hub

Is a Quantum-Cryptography Apocalypse Imminent?

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don't panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global ...