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Addressing quantum cyber-threats should already be a high priority for cybersecurity professionals, according to Duncan Jones, head of cybersecurity at Quantinuum, speaking during the ISC(²) Secure Webinar ‘The Threat and Promise of Quantum Cybersecurity.’ Jones began by emphasizing the significant differences between quantum and classical computing, both in operations and possibilities. One of the most significant of these is that while classical computers only have binary choices, 0 or 1, quantum computers are made up of ‘qubits,’ which…

Two Europeans have been indicted for allegedly conspiring with a cryptocurrency specialist to help North Korea evade US sanctions. Alejandro Cao De Benos, 47, from Spain, and Christopher Emms, 30, from the UK, are said to have jointly planned and organized the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference (the DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference) that crypto expert Virgil Griffith attended. Griffith was this month handed a five-year sentence after pleading guilty to helping North Korea evade sanctions. At the conference,…

A French hospital group has been forced to cut internet connectivity in two locations after hackers stole data in an attempted extortion campaign. GHT Cœur Grand Est revealed the news in an update yesterday, claiming the attack struck last Tuesday and succeeded in infiltrating the networks of its Vitry-le-François and Saint-Dizier hospitals. “The GHT Cœur Grand Est has cut all incoming and outgoing internet connections from its establishments in order to protect and secure information…

Customers of a popular NFT seller have been warned not to fall for social media scams after fraudsters hijacked its account to scam some out of millions of dollars worth of virtual goods. Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) revealed yesterday that its Instagram account was “hacked” in order to trick customers into transferring their NFTs. “The hacker posted a fraudulent link to a copycat of the BAYC website with a fake Airdrop, where users were…

Organizations are always concerned with improving efficiencies to make business flow smoother. Some of the biggest inefficiencies in any business revolve around time wasted on operational tasks. Whether it is a stale accounting process, or something as trivial as routing phone calls to the proper department, saving time by improving a process can mean more profits, which is what business is all about. When it comes to the technology side of a business, one of the most…

After launching industry-specific data lakehouses for the retail, financial services and healthcare sectors over the past three months, Databricks is releasing a solution targeting the media and the entertainment (M&E) sector. Now generally available, the M&E data lakehouse comes with industry use-case specific features that the company calls accelerators, including real-time personalization, said Steve Sobel, the company’s global head of communications, in a blog post. “The idea of these so-called accelerators is to provide pre-built…