Encryption

Customers can now sign data and validate signatures using FIPS 204 and FIPS 205 compliant post-quantum cryptography.

Microsoft researchers introduced Majorana 1, a self-contained quantum processing unit (QPU) capable of containing up to 1 million qubits.

Spanish police identified two of the suspects as the service’s top global distributors, having earned over $14 million from subscription sales.

Implementation of a backdoor that would enable government access to Apple users' cloud storage data could set a precedent for authoritarian nation-states and threat actors, with Electronic Frontier Foundation's Thorin Klosowski noting the threat of a global emergency stemming from the secret order.

Aside from delivering unencrypted device and mobile app registration information to Volcano Engine servers owned by TikTok parent firm ByteDance, DeepSeek's iOS app has also been leveraging an insecure symmetric encryption algorithm, a hardcoded encryption key, and old initialization vectors, an audit from NowSecure showed.

Researchers at MITRE estimated that no quantum computer capable of decrypting RSA-2048 encryption, currently in use for protecting classified information, will exist until at least 2055 to 2060 unless unexpected breakthroughs occur.