Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it’s ‘bollocks’ The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.… READ MORE HERE…

It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.… READ MORE HERE…

‘Deeply penetrated’ Gaskar ‘to the very tonsils of demilitarization’ Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia’s Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production. … READ MORE HERE…

Someone’s OVERSTEPing the mark Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group.… READ MORE HERE…

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.… READ MORE HERE…