The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Quantum computing’s threat to Bitcoin has made a Wall Street strategist step away from Bitcoin, insisting the technology is not far away from bringing down the security protocols used by blockchain ...

Midway through a decade that is coming to be defined by the runaway acceleration of technological change, the threat of ransomware attacks seems to be dropping down the agenda in boardrooms around the ...

A consensus attack on the chain could compromise its proof-of-stake (PoS) system, the mechanism by which validators ...

We look at the political and government responses to risks around data sovereignty and massive dependence on the three US hyperscalers, AWS, Azure and GCP in the UK and Europe ...

New research indicates that, with the right hardware, cracking Bitcoin's encryption is getting closer to being possible.

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