Countering Social Engineering in the Defence Industry
In May 2024, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) faced a significant social engineering attack targeting its payroll system, compromising the sensitive data of up to 270,000 serving personnel, reservists, and veterans. This exposed personal identifiable information, including names, bank details, and some addresses. Attackers, believed to be state sponsored, exploited a third-party contractor’s system […]
Chinese Researchers Claim Military Grade Encryption Broken by Quantum Computer: Challenges For The Current Cryptographic System.
The Claim In the recent news, chinese researchers claim to have used a D-Wave Advantage quantum computer to break specific encryption algorithms based on the Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN), a common structure in encryption. SPNs secure data by repeatedly substituting (replacing) and permuting (reordering) parts of it, and they are foundational to widely used encryption systems […]