Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Spotted an interesting report recently stating that 768-bit RSA encryption has been broken. Specifically, what researchers have done is factorised a 768=bit 232-digit number using a number field sieve ...

Not as close as you might fear, but quantum encryption cracking is on its way. So, it's time to start getting ready for it. Quantum encryption cracking is on its way, so it’s time to start getting ...

Public key encryption has long been a cornerstone in securing digital communications, allowing messages to be encrypted with a recipient’s publicly available key while only being decrypted by the ...

At the recent Def Con 20 hacking conference, security researcher Moxie Marlinspike showed off the latest addition to his CloudCracker service: the ability to break the encryption used in popular ...

Data storage security covers a wide landscape, including legal compliance, e-discovery, user access control and the physical security of data storage media. In this article we will focus on ...