Security News

No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
2024-10-22 11:03

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have...

MongoDB Queryable Encryption now supports range queries on encrypted data
2024-10-17 06:46

MongoDB Queryable Encryption allows customers to securely encrypt sensitive application data and store it in an encrypted format within the MongoDB database. It also enables direct equality and...

Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption
2024-10-15 16:45

Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report Microsoft says ransomware attacks are up 2.75 times compared to last year, but claims defenses are actually working...

Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
2024-10-14 06:30

With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave's quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.…

Discord Introduces DAVE Protocol for End-to-End Encryption in Audio and Video Calls
2024-09-23 09:43

Popular social messaging platform Discord has announced that it's rolling out a new custom end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) protocol to secure audio and video calls. The protocol has been dubbed DAVE,...

Discord rolls out end-to-end encryption for audio, video calls
2024-09-18 22:04

Discord has introduced the DAVE protocol, a custom end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol designed to protect audio and video calls on the platform from unauthorized interceptions. [...]

GSMA Plans End-to-End Encryption for Cross-Platform RCS Messaging
2024-09-18 06:18

The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it's working towards implementing end-to-end encryption...

Chrome switching to NIST-approved ML-KEM quantum encryption
2024-09-16 16:22

Google announced updates in the post-quantum cryptographic key encapsulation mechanism used in the Chrome browser, specifically, the swap of Kyber used in hybrid key exchanges with Module Lattice...

Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption
2024-09-09 11:03

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. The Assistance and Access Act...

Matthew Green on Telegram’s Encryption
2024-08-28 11:00

Matthew Green wrote a really good blog post on what Telegram’s encryption is and is not.