Adam Firestone is Editor-in-Chief of United States Cybersecurity Magazine and brings nearly 30 years of secure systems design experience to the publication.
When German police obtained WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal messages in recent investigations, it wasn’t because they were able to defeat the applications or their cryptography. Law enforcement officers used the official companion
Hello, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and CISA’s theme this year is “Securing the Next 250.” That’s less a slogan for posters in a break room and more an assignment. Our
New cryptography enables anonymous, private messaging and communication, defeating chosen-ciphertext attacks for the first time In an age when digital exchanges risk exposure to criminal and state actors, the challenge of sending
Hello, For years, the cybersecurity community has comforted itself with the belief that Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQC) and the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) were distant, highly specialized concerns, matters for
New research shows that the much-feared AI takeover of the cybercrime world is mostly hype, with real risks coming from everyday technology instead. Picture a bustling online marketplace where people trade stolen
How a New York City experiment brought the vision of a quantum internet a step closer. For as long as people have been connecting computers, others have been trying to break into
Quantum Threat Timelines Are Accelerating Over the last several years, academia and industry have been converging on a shorter and more realistic timeline to Q-Day. While new research continues to move the
Hello, For years, the cybersecurity community has comforted itself with the belief that cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQC) were a distant threat, something on the far horizon, always decades away. That belief
Why a new generation of cryptography is taking shape and what it means for the future The world of cybersecurity enters a period of profound change. Quantum mechanics acts as the catalyst.
How probing the inner wiring of AI models may be the key to making them safer Artificial intelligence is becoming woven into the fabric of daily life, from helping doctors summarize medical
