First, I’ve been tasked with writing a policy for safe computing practices, which policy is to be sent to everyone at this site once a month. I know how to compute safely, of course, but I find myself ...

I am regularly asked what average Internet users can do to ensure their security. My first answer is usually, "Nothing--you're screwed." But that's not true, and the reality is more complicated.

Just weeks after US president Joe Biden signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, there are reports that Chinese researchers have cracked RSA 2048 bit encryption. Given ...