InfoSec News Nuggets 9/6/2024

White House Outlines Plan for Addressing BGP Vulnerabilities The White House on Tuesday outlined a plan for addressing internet routing security issues, particularly vulnerabilities associated with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).  BGP is the protocol used for exchanging routing information between autonomous systems (AS) on the internet. However, this critical component of the web was not created with security in mind and several potentially important vulnerabilities have come to light in the past years. They can enable…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 12/02/2021

Chinese could hack data for future quantum decryption, report warns Chinese hackers could target heavily encrypted datasets such as weapon designs or details of undercover intelligence officers with a view to unlocking them at a later date when quantum computing makes decryption possible, a report warns. Analysts at Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm, say Chinese hackers could also steal pharmaceutical, chemical and material science research that can be processed by quantum computers – machines capable of…
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