According to Google, Q-Day—the point at which modern encryption becomes obsolete in the face of quantum computers capable of breaking it instantly—is approaching. Google suggests the day may arrive as ...

For years, security teams treated ransomware as a technological problem. Security teams hardened backup systems, deployed endpoint detection, practiced incident response playbooks built around data ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Auction Of Famed CIA Cipher Shaken After Archive Reveals Code By Victoria LAVELLE Nov 18, 2025, 8:37 pm EST Share ...

The puzzle’s designer, James Sanborn, has urged the solution’s buyer not to reveal it, but to keep it safe until the Smithsonian releases its own copy. Puzzlers, enigmatologists, and even professional ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google Quantum AI revived a decades-old concept known as quantum money. The tokens rely on the no-cloning theorem, making ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. IBM researchers entangled 120 qubits, setting a new benchmark for quantum computing. The GHZ “cat state” achieved fidelity of ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.