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Quantum computing's rapid advancements pose an urgent threat to the security of digital assets and financial systems.

Because it can easily break traditional encryption methods, the powerful technology could quickly make current cybersecurity ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...

An OECD paper last year said 'harvest now, decrypt later' attacks were one reason to move now.

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...