Security Boulevard

Payouts King Takes Aim at the Ransomware Throne

IntroductionIn February 2022, BlackBasta emerged as a successor to Conti ransomware and quickly rose to prominence. BlackBasta was operational for three years until February 2025 when their internal ...
Decrypt

There’s a Way to Make Bitcoin Safe From Quantum Without a Fork, Researchers Say

Research suggests Bitcoin users could defend against future quantum attacks using a transaction design that works within ...
IEEE

Secure Optimized Hardware IP Design using Key-driven Hash Slicing based HLS Watermarking Integrated with Krill-Herd DSE

Abstract: The problems of intellectual property (IP) piracy and false IP ownership have emerged as a significant concern for the hardware security community. This paper presents a novel low-cost high ...
IEEE

Pipelined Implementation of Secure Hash Algorithm on FPGA for Enhanced Performance

Abstract: This paper presents the implementation and opti-mization of the SHA-256 algorithm on an FPGA platform, specif-ically on the Xilinx Artix-4 DDR board. The main objective is to enhance the ...
Ars Technica

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...