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Crypto Security
The $160M Wintermute Hack: Inside Job or Profanity Bug?
Getting to the bottom of the exploit that led to one of the biggest hacks in the history of decentralized finance. In order to understand the $160M Wintermute hack, we first need to understand algorithmic market makers and how they…
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Policy & Sovereignty
NSA Unveils CNSA 2.0 Post-Quantum Algorithm Suite
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has officially announced the release of the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0), a new set of cryptographic standards designed to protect sensitive systems against future quantum-enabled cyber threats. The NSA’s cybersecurity…
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Crypto Security
Introduction to Blockchain Layers 0, 1, and 2 Security
What Are Blockchains Layers 0, 1, and 2? A blockchain is a complex, multi-layered system. Bitcoin, the original blockchain, maintained a distributed and decentralized digital ledger on top of a peer-to-peer network. Later blockchains, like Ethereum, added complexity by integrating…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Mitigating Quantum Threats Beyond PQC
The article explores limitations of PQC and explores alternative and complementary approaches to mitigate quantum risks. It provides technical analysis of each strategy, real-world examples of their deployment, and strategic recommendations for decision-makers. The goal is to illuminate why a…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Introduction to Crypto-Agility
As we edge closer to the Q-Day—the anticipated moment when quantum computers will be capable of breaking traditional cryptographic systems—the need for crypto-agility becomes increasingly critical. Crypto-agility is the capability of an organization to swiftly and efficiently transition between different…
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Research
Silicon’s First Attempts at Self-Repair: Phase-Flip Error Correction Demonstrated in Semiconductor Spin Qubits
25 Aug 2022 - Seven months ago, three teams simultaneously proved that silicon spin qubits could operate above the fault-tolerance threshold — the quality of individual gates good enough, in principle, for error correction to work. That was the prerequisite.…
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AI Security
Your Guardrail Is a Text Classifier
The 2018 literature on fooling text classifiers reads like history until you notice that prompt injection detectors are text classifiers, and the same tools break them at up to 100% evasion.
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Industry
CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 Signed: A Quantum Leap for U.S. Tech
President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (H.R. 4346, Public Law 117-167) into law on August 9, 2022 - a historic $280 billion package aimed at boosting U.S. high-tech manufacturing and research. While best known for providing $52 billion to…
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Crypto Security
Trying to Solve the Mysterious $200M BitMart Hack
A missing pile of Safemoon and other cryptocurrencies, accusations of broken promises, and then nothing. When a high-profile cyber attack takes place and hundreds of millions of dollars are lost, usually a healthy balance is struck between safeguarding information to…
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Industry
D-Wave Goes Public on the NYSE
D-Wave achieved a significant corporate milestone by listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “QBTS”. The public debut came via a merger with a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company) and made D-Wave one of only three quantum computing…
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AI Security
The Instruction Comes In Through the Camera
In 2022 a multimodal attack meant fooling a fusion model into misclassifying. In 2026 it usually means an instruction arriving through a channel your text filters cannot read.
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Crypto Security
Why DevSecOps is Essential for the Blockchain Ecosystem
In recent years, many organizations have adopted more modern development practices, including Agile, Scrum, and DevOps. The goal of these new processes is to improve the pace and efficiency of development by streamlining the development process and using automation whenever…
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Crypto Security
What the $534M Coincheck Hack Taught Us All About Safe Storage of Digital Assets
The biggest crypto heist in history at the time it occurred in 2018 was an eye-opener for many reasons, not least of which for the way the stolen assets were being stored. Seasoned crypto enthusiasts and early adopters of the…
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Crypto Security
Security Threats to Blockchain Networks – 6 – Wallet Attacks
Wallet Attacks: A Deep-dive Wallets are a logical target for cyber-attacks, along with the emerging institutions that hold custody of them on users’ behalf. While secured with technically unbreakable code, hackers have found numerous ways to gain illicit access to…
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Crypto Security
What the Biggest Blockchain Game’s Hack Reveals about the Future of Crypto Adoption
Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge Hack for $551M worth of crypto assets could paradoxically lead to higher rates of blockchain adoption by showing that it’s a lot easier to track stolen cryptocurrency than people think. The popular misconception that cryptocurrencies are…
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