1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (474+ words) Order warns of national security risks if post-quantum cryptography isn't adopted in time. The White House is drastically shortening the deadline for government agencies and organizations to adopt new quantum-resistant encryption systems that will withstand attacks that use quantum computers,…...

5+ day, 31+ min ago  (473+ words) Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (398+ words) Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence. "Starting on Sunday, May 31, 2026, an external party launched a brute force attack against certain Dashlane user accounts," the company said. "The goal of the attack was to brute-force two-factor authentication…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (305+ words) Anyone who has downloaded affected Red Hat packages should investigate immediately. Official Red Hat NPM accounts have been compromised and used to push a malicious worm that spreads from machine to machine, where it pilfers sensitive credentials in hopes of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (439+ words) NZXT will forgive up to $5, 000 in debt for customers of the Flex program. PC hardware company NZXT and its billing partner, Fragile, have agreed to a $3, 450, 000 settlement in response to a class-action complaint regarding NZXT's Flex PC rental program. In…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (313+ words) Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it? Zoe Lofgren (D'Calif.), the ranking member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, made it clear that she is not happy with how the…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1249+ words) Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto. Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world. The malware'reportedly jointly developed…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (213+ words) Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat. Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers of its…...

2+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (327+ words) Technically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC. So why is it being used? A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files'making, or at least claiming,…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (369+ words) A stubborn misconception is hampering the already hard work of quantum readiness. With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to…...