Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

When your mcp client talks to a server—maybe a retail bot checking inventory levels—they usually do a "handshake" to agree on a secret key. If you use ML-KEM, that handshake stays safe even if a ...

As cybercriminals gain access to increasingly more computing power capable of breaking existing encryption algorithms in ...

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Quantum computers are shifting from lab curiosities into real machines that can already outperform classical systems on ...

What is SSL/TLS? SSL and TLS are protocols used on the transport layer, which is used to provide a secure connection between two nodes in a computer network. The first widely used protocol that was ...

A lot of productivity systems become almost useless once you try to move your data somewhere else. You can spend as much time ...

Microsoft has admitted that turning on BitLocker on PCs with NVMe SSDs can have a noticeable performance impact.

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

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As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.