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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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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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Security News for the Week Ending October 13, 2023

Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]

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AI At Its Best – Not! UK Leader Targeted With Fake Audio Posted to Twitter

No, this is not a “lets beat up Twitter” post. I assume that the person who posted the fake audio selected Twitter because it would be less likely to be taken down. This is not a smear, just the reality of where the Twitter world is today. UK opposition leader Keir Starmer was smeared by […]

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NSO’s Pegasus Spyware Has a Cousin and it has Been Around for More than a Decade

While the NSO Group went from darling to villain quickly once what they were doing became public, there are many unrelated cousins that are doing equally nasty things and are staying in the shadows. Now, one more has been exposed. The Predator Files is a collaborative investigative action by a group of journalism organizations that […]

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