About half of 6 million internet-connected systems using the legacy File Transfer Protocol continue to lack encryption, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to SecurityWeek.
The vulnerability, discovered by Nicholas Carlini, is a cryptographic validation flaw affecting multiple signature algorithms in wolfSSL, including ECDSA/ECC, DSA, ML-DSA, Ed25519, and Ed448.
In a Texas court case in April 2026, the FBI presented evidence of recovered Signal messages from criminal defendant Lynette Sharp's iPhone, despite her having deleted the application.
This bet stems from the ongoing debate about when quantum computers will become powerful enough to decrypt data secured by legacy algorithms, a threat that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been preparing for with the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Google's decision to aim for a 2029 PQC deadline, ahead of the NSA's 2031 and the US government's 2035 goals, stems from new research indicating quantum computers could break current encryption much sooner than anticipated.
Security Brief Australia reports that Niobium has launched The Fog, an encrypted cloud platform for private AI and data processing now available in private beta.
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