How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers

A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.
SecurityWeek

Quantum Decryption of RSA Is Much Closer Than Expected

The JVG algorithm factors RSA and ECC keys using fewer quantum resources than Shor’s algorithm, accelerating the time needed ...
The Hacker News

Demystifying Key Exchange: From Classical Elliptic Curve Cryptography to a Post-Quantum Future

After a multi-year competition, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected a suite of algorithms for standardization. For key exchange, the primary choice is the ...
Wall Street Journal

Meet Anthropic’s AI Morality Teacher

This is an edition of The Future of Everything newsletter, a look at how innovation and technology are transforming the way we live, work and play. If you’re not subscribed, sign up here. Amanda ...
PBS

National security experts argue U.S. TikTok deal falls short

President Trump announced a deal to keep TikTok available in the U.S. The agreement caps a six-year legal and geopolitical fight after Congress passed a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese ...
CNN

The deal to secure TikTok’s future in the US has finally closed

The joint venture acquiring TikTok’s US assets has been formally established and has announced its leadership team, according to the company, one day before the deadline set by President Donald Trump ...
IEEE

Research on Image Information Security Algorithm Based on Wavelet Neural Network

Abstract: With the continuous emergence of digital images and digital videos, a large number of images containing sensitive information need to be kept secret, and a large number of digital media ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by leveraging the capabilities of system-on-a-chip and CPU. BitLocker is the ...
Gizmodo

TikTok Finally Strikes a Deal to Be Taken Over by Trump Allies

A new U.S.-based joint venture would keep TikTok online while handing oversight of its algorithm and data security to some of America’s wealthiest investors. Reading time 2 minutes TikTok and ...
The Verge

The TikTok US sale is finally happening

An internal memo says its algorithm will be retrained on US user data after the deal closes in January. An internal memo says its algorithm will be retrained on US user data after the deal closes in ...
Computer Weekly

Security platform consolidation in 2026: The AI imperative

AI leaves us no other choice but to consolidate cyber security platforms; in 2026, organisations will face AI-driven attacks that adapt in real time. Fragmented security stacks simply can’t keep up, ...