The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News ...

Traditional optical encryption systems rely on commercial array detectors like CCDs or CMOS for image capture. This creates a major vulnerability: since these are "generic" devices, an eavesdropper ...

Discord is now using end-to-end encryption for all voice and video calls across all platforms: desktop, mobile, web and console. It’s been a very long time coming – the company first shared its ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

A harrowing scene unfolded overnight in the northwest suburbs when an apartment building went up in flames, with at least five people hurt and reports that some had to jump to safety. The fire, at ...

The self-proclaimed “Pro-life Spiderman” was sentenced to prison for climbing the Las Vegas Sphere and causing $100,000 in damages — after he taunted cops that he would escape conviction. Professional ...

A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant implementing Kyber1024 post-quantum encryption. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 ...

It used to be easy enough to distinguish between human-made and AI-generated imagery — just two years ago, you couldn’t use image models to create a menu for a Mexican restaurant without inventing new ...

A Des Plaines bar was forced to close Tuesday afternoon following a small kitchen fire, authorities said. The fire was reported about 2:30 p.m. at Countryside Saloon, 2501 Ballard Road. It spread from ...

The developer of the popular file encryption software VeraCrypt says Microsoft has blocked access to the account he used for sending updates to Windows users, and warned that anyone who encrypts their ...

A quantum computer capable of breaking the encryption that secures the internet now seems to be just around the corner. Stunning revelations from two research teams outline how it could happen, with ...

During the iOS 26.4 beta cycle, Apple let users test out RCS messaging with end-to-end encryption (E2EE). From the very first beta though, Apple was clear that E2EE for RCS was only being tested in ...