A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. An investigation from Threatdown, the former corporate ...

Why it matters: President Donald Trump has set firmer deadlines for US quantum computing efforts, signing two executive orders designed to accelerate the technology's development while fast-tracking ...

The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening federal systems against quantum-enabled attacks on ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Update: Added statement from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich to the end of the story. Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in ...

The US government wants to get hold of a quantum computer good enough to contribute to scientific breakthroughs in just two years. It will use it to try to accelerate the research and development of ...

A top quantum computing expert assails Microsoft’s claims that it has a “topological qubit,” arguing in a new paper that the company has failed to demonstrate the technology. University of St Andrews ...

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.

A new scam is targeting cryptocurrency owners by disguising malware as wallet recovery software for forgotten seed phrases. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

Microsoft's July 14 Patch Tuesday delivered something more significant than the usual batch of security fixes: a quiet rewriting of how Windows negotiates encrypted connections. The update ships ...

Section 1. Purpose. America stands at the cusp of a quantum revolution. Quantum information science and technology (QIST) will provide transformational capabilities that will drive American innovation ...

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units. By Don Clark Reporting from San ...