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UK Updates Post-Quantum Crypto Guidance

I have written several times about the need to start thinking about post-quantum crypto. At this point, “Q-Day” is somewhere between this year and ten years from now. If you believe my blog last week, Q-Day could be today. NIST has published draft post quantum standards, but there is a lot more to do besides […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 3, 2023

Meta Launches Paid Facebook/Instagram Option in EU To satisfy EU privacy laws, Meta is going to offer an ad free paid version of Facebook and Instagram in the EU/EEA and Switzerland for (e ) 9.99 on the web and (e ) 12.99 for the apps since the have to give the app store 30 percent. […]

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Researcher Claims to Have Cracked RSA-2048 With Quantum Computer

Researchers are highly skeptical about the claim of another scientist who says that he has developed an inexpensive system to crack RSA encryption, the most commonly used public key encryption. The researcher who claims to have cracked RSA is Ed Gerck. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is a quantum computing developer at a company […]

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US Led Coalition Vows to not pay Hackers’ Ransom Demands

We shall see if this really works, but if it REDUCES payments, that will be good. A joint pledge was announced at the third annual International Counter Ransomware Initiative or CRI. The CRI includes 48 countries, the EU and Interpol. Anne Neuberger described the situation saying that dozens of GOVERNMENTS signed a policy statement saying […]

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A Warning for Founders About Open Source Software and Lean Teams

Founders of startups are mostly interested in getting a minimal viable product (MVP) out the door as quickly as possible. This is quite reasonable and what the investors likely want. After all, if there is no product, there is no revenue. The solution to this is, among other things, to reduce cost by relying on […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 27, 2023

US Marines Strap a Rocket Launcher to a Dog By the way, it was a robot dog and it not only worked, but the dog survived launching the rocket. This was a demonstration and the dog was one that they bought on Amazon for a few thousand bucks. Imagine what they can do with a […]

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