Bitcoin is often mentioned in the media in the same breath as the now defunct ‘silk road’ dark-web trading site, and usually accompanied by a nonsensical stock photo of a laptop user wearing a balaclava. …
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The odds are high that the phrase ‘quantum supremacy’ will soon cross your desk. In mid-2016 Google engineers announced plans to achieve quantum supremacy in the near-term; the likely timescale is five years, possibly much …
A second instalment of Wikileaks’ CIA series ‘Vault 7’ came out this week, following the first leak earlier this month. This new tranche, comprising 12 documents and codenamed ‘Dark Matter’, purports to outline how the …
The US Department of Justice has charged four Russians—two intelligence officers and two private hackers—with over 47 counts of computer crime, fraud and identity theft, for their role in the compromise of over one billion …
2016 was a tumultuous year in cyber security. But there were three stories in particular that will likely have implications for events this year. The first is Russia’s cyber influence campaign that helped Donald Trump …