An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

At the time, their technique was a fascinating but impractical creation. Forty years later, it is poised to become an ...

Quantum cryptography pioneers win Turing Award for unhackable encryption breakthrough

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum information science. Their 1984 paper ...
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Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK ...

Qihoo 360 accidentally exposed a private SSL key, putting its platform at risk

Qihoo 360 recently shipped its 360 Security Claw AI assistant, a tool designed to rein in the viral AI agent OpenClaw. However, the installer contained a ...

Betterleaks, a new open-source secrets scanner to replace Gitleaks

A new open-source tool called Betterleaks can scan directories, files, and git repositories and identify valid secrets using default or customized rules.