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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Engaging and Managing Vendors for Quantum Readiness
Vendors provide critical software, cloud platforms, fintech solutions, IoT devices, and more - and these often rely on vulnerable cryptographic algorithms under the hood. If a key vendor lags in upgrading their encryption, it could expose your data or systems…
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Policy & Sovereignty
Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act
On December 21, 2022, President Joe Biden officially signed H.R.7535, known as the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, into law. This legislation urges federal agencies to upgrade their technologies to defend against potential quantum computing threats. The act is a…
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Quantum Security & PQC
2022 Quantum Threat Timeline Report Published
The “2022 Quantum Threat Timeline Report” by the Global Risk Institute, authored by Dr. Michele Mosca and Dr. Marco Piani from evolutionQ Inc. was just published. This report provides analysis of the quantum threat landscape and tries to predict the…
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Crypto Security
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 4 – Security Operations (SOC)
This article concludes our four-part series on the basic differences between traditional IT security and blockchain security. Previous articles discussed the security differences critical for node operators, smart contract developers, and end users. In many ways, Security Operations Center (SOC)…
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AI Security
Introduction to AI-Enabled Disinformation
In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many sectors, bringing about significant advancements in various fields. However, one area where AI has presented a dual-edged sword is in information operations, specifically in the propagation of disinformation.…
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AI Security
The Poisoning Tool With Millions of Downloads
Nightshade corrupts a text-to-image concept with fewer than 100 samples, and it has been downloaded millions of times by the people whose work is being scraped. The only poisoning technique with that reach inverts the whole threat model.
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Industry
IBM Osprey: A 433-Qubit Quantum Leap
IBM has announced Osprey, a superconducting quantum processor with a record-breaking 433 qubits – by far the largest of its kind as of its 2022 debut. Revealed at the IBM Quantum Summit in November 2022, Osprey more than triples the…
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AI Security
“Magical” Emergent Behaviours in AI: A Security Perspective
Emergent behaviours in AI have left both researchers and practitioners scratching their heads. These are the unexpected quirks and functionalities that pop up in complex AI systems, not because they were explicitly trained to exhibit them, but due to the…
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Policy & Sovereignty
White House Memo Urges Federal Agencies to Prepare for Post-Quantum Cryptography
November 20, 2022 - The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a new memorandum that could reshape federal cybersecurity for the coming quantum era. OMB Memorandum M-23-02, titled "Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography," was released on November…
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Quantum Networks
Entanglement Distribution Techniques in Quantum Networks
Quantum entanglement is a unique resource that enables new forms of communication and computation impossible with classical means. Distributing entanglement between distant locations is essential for applications such as quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum teleportation, and connecting quantum computers for…
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5G Security
Can we afford to keep ignoring Open RAN security?
I’m skeptical of ‘futurists’. Work closely enough with the development of technology solutions and you’ll know that the only certain thing about the future is that it’s constantly changing. For example, few ‘futurists’ predicted the Covid-19 outbreak that brought the…
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Crypto Security
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 3 – User Security
This article is the third in a four-part series exploring the differences between traditional IT security and blockchain security. Check out the first two articles in the series exploring the differences for node operators and application developers. This article explores…
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Crypto Security
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 2 – Smart Contract Developers
This article is the second in a four-part series discussing the differences between traditional IT security / cybersecurity and blockchain security. Check out the first article in the series discussing the differences for node operators. This article focuses on the…
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AI Security
Dynamic Data Masking Protects the View, Not the Model
Masking rewrites what a query returns and leaves the stored data alone. Whoever builds your training set either reads through the mask or under it, and neither outcome gives the resulting model any privacy property at all.
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AI Security
Every Thumbs-Up Can Become a Training Label
Flipping 0.3% of preference labels reached a near-perfect attack success rate against safety alignment. The old defence advice assumes a labelled dataset you can audit, and that is not where labels live now.
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