Pizza for pythons: Florida restaurant owner gives away free pies in exchange for dead snakes

A Florida pizzeria owner is redefining the term “exotic pet trade” by accepting captured Burmese pythons as payment for a pie ...

Now, even Russia’s most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit, ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft accelerates quantum-safe roadmap as risks grow

Update: Added statement from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich to the end of the story. Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in ...
IEEE

A Faster and Robust Artificial Neural Network Based Image Encryption Technique With Improved SSIM

Abstract: A robust image encryption process is still one of the most challenging tasks in image security owing to massive degree and sensitivity nature of information in the form of pixels. The ...
IEEE

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Functional Encryption for Inner Product

Abstract: To support secure data mining and privacy-preserving computation, partial access and selective computation on encrypted data are desirable. Functional encryption (FE) is a new paradigm of ...