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Quantum hackers can bring down Bitcoin: expert

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(MENAFN– Asia Times)

NEW YORK – $3 trillion of cryptocurrency assets are, or soon will be, vulnerable to hacking by quantum computers, one of China’s top cryptographers told an Asia Times webinar on November 30.

You won’t know if it’s happening until it’s too late, Professor Jintao Ding of Tsinghua University explained. And the best thing about hacking Bitcoin, he explained, is that it isn’t against the law.

Crypto analysts have worried about the quantum invasion for some time. Motley Fool’s Zhiyuan Sun wrote in September,“The rise of quantum computing may soon give governments a means to crack down on Bitcoin and other types of cryptocurrencies… Governments could potentially decrypt digital currencies or launch hash attacks to take over their network for a regulatory shutdown with these machines.”

“Most governments like Bitcoin as much as we like walking with rocks in our shoes,” Sun added. No government dislikes Bitcoin as much as China, which banned onshore trading of cryptocurrencies in 2019 and forbade Chinese from trading on offshore crypto exchanges last September.

“Our modern information system relies completely on public key cryptography, including Bitcoin,” Ding told the“Data Wars” webinar, co-sponsored by the American Affairs journal and Asia Times.“If we have a quantum computer, our Zoom would be finished, and everything actually—the whole information system, because our fundamental security solution relies on it.”

Public key cryptography based on the RSA standard has been in use since the late 1970s. Each user has a public key for purposes of identification, and a private key—a password—for decryption.

The public key is based on two very large prime numbers, which are secret; only the recipient knows the prime numbers, which are required to decrypt the message. Factoring extremely large numbers into primes, decrypting the private key requires factoring extremely large numbers into primes, something that takes supercomputers a very long time to do.




Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. Photo: Facebook

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Lightsense Technology and ICN Group Join Forces to Bring “DrugDetect” to Market

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TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Lightsense Technology, a pioneer of developing multi-spectroscopic solutions to address large problems in public health—from the opioid crisis to the pandemic, food safety and quality assurance in the pharmaceutical supply chain, —announced today a new channel partnership to launch its DrugDetect-M1 device for law enforcement organizations into relevant channels in the US.

DrugDetect M-1 Product Image
DrugDetect M-1 Product Image
Lightsense Analysis Representation
Lightsense Analysis Representation

“We are very excited to partner with Lightsense Technology with an innovative solution for illicit drug detection for law enforcement, and, later, bringing future pathogen detection products to market,” said Robert Danese, CEO of the ICN Group. “DrugDetect-M1 serves as compelling evidence of the power of new light-based detection technology. We are happy to be a part of their efforts.” 

The DrugDetect platform provides a solution that is easy to operate and offers great sensitivity with high levels of accuracy at an inexpensive price point. This platform can help with the difficult opioid epidemic by providing a new tool for law enforcement to tell quickly if a white powdery substance inside a thin plastic bag could be a threat, helping them do their job efficiently and safely.

“We are pleased to team with the ICN group to bring unique, valuable solutions to broader channels within the US,” said Terje Skotheim, Founder & CEO of Lightsense Technology. “This is the beginning of a new and ongoing path to turn our advanced efforts in R&D into solutions into various channels, creating more access to our products, boosting shareholder value and providing better solutions for various problems in public health.”

About Lightsense Technology
Lightsense has developed a groundbreaking multi-spectral technology platform, such as the patented “Enhanced Photodetection Spectroscopy” (EPS), a radical new spectroscopy architecture, for chemical, molecular and pathogen identification. Their advanced miniaturized high-sensitivity spectrometer designs also enable new lightweight and inexpensive handheld devices to support solutions such as for law enforcement organizations, and beyond. These…

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Suburban Chicago Family Struggles To Bring Family Home From Afghanistan – NBC Chicago

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A suburban Chicago family is trying to get their young family members home from Afghanistan but face confusion over logistics.

Only giving us his first name, Masud has been watching the unnerving situation in Kabul from his Lincolnwood home, wondering if his family will ever catch a flight out.

“There is no security in place for everyone’s safety, let alone Americans’ safety,” said Masud.

His wife’s youngest siblings, ranging in age from 8 months to 10 years old, traveled to Kabul a month ago to visit other family members.

Masud says they were supposed to catch a flight back home to the United States this week, but the flight was canceled.

Now, the children are in hiding with family members awaiting word from the U.S. government on what to do next.

“How will they be able to get on a U.S. military flight?” said Masud. “Even if they’re told to go to the airport, how do [they] get to the front gate?”

Masud said it’s too dangerous for the children to travel to Kabul Airport, even as thousands of American troops restored order to the airport on Tuesday.

“No one is able to predict the next minute,” said Masud. “Random criminals can kidnap them.”

On Tuesday, the Pentagon said it was in talks with the Taliban, who’ve fully taken over Afghanistan in a matter of days.

Jake Sullivan, U.S. National Security Adviser, said the Taliban have informed the U.S. that they are prepared to provide the safe passage of civilians to the airport.

“We intend to hold them to that commitment,” said Sullivan.

RefugeeOne of Chicago is already assisting two Afghan families that will be relocating to the Chicago area in the coming weeks, according to Jims Porter, a spokesperson for the state’s largest resettlement organization.

“Last week, we were told there were about 18,000 Special Immigrant Visa holders from Afghanistan that were going to be relocated to Fort Lee, Virginia,” said Porter.

Of those thousands of refugees, Porter says RefugeeOne Chicago can welcome up to 500 refugees per year. He says they are “nowhere near” that number this year.

Meanwhile, it’s estimated that about 11,000 Americans could be waiting to evacuate Afghanistan. As of Tuesday, evacuations…

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Security Innovation Experts Bring Exploit Expertise to Black Hat 2021 and DEF CON 29 for Fifth …

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WILMINGTON, Mass., Aug. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Security Innovation, an authority in software security assessments and training, is delivering advanced training workshops and hands-on hacking at the Black Hat USA and DEF CON 29 conferences. Among the premier cybersecurity events in the world, these annual conferences convene the most innovative and creative researchers to explore new exploits, discuss trends and findings, and collaborate on pressing cyber security issues.

Offensive Mobile Reversing & Exploitation
The company’s Mobile Center-of-Excellence lead, Dinesh Shetty, returned to Black Hat USA 2021 and Black Hat Asia 2021 with an updated version of this popular course that includes expanded coverage of ARM64, mobile browser security, and more in-depth coverage of Mobile apps and operating system security.

House of Heap Workshop
The sold out House of Heap Workworkshop at DEF CON 29 is the results of over a year’s worth of research. This hands-on introduction to GLibC Malloc heap exploitation will help attendees learn how the allocator functions, understand heap specific vulnerability classes, and gain root access with a variety of techniques.

“Heap exploitation is a subject that has evaded many people for years for one primary reason – they focus on the techniques instead of the allocator, said Maxwell Dulin, Security Consultant at Security Innovation. “By learning with an allocator-first style, the techniques are easily understood and practical to use. I look forward to presenting this novel approach.”

Three Security Innovation engineers with deep expertise in Heap exploitation will join Maxwell to ensure students get the most tailored training possible:

  • James Dolan, Security Engineer
  • Nathan Kirkland, Security Researcher & Engineer
  • Zachary Minneker, Security Researcher & Engineer

DevOps CTF
Security Innovation is running one of the DEF CON CTF events again this year. InfiniCrate is the company’s latest cyber range, an ultra-realistic cloud storage repository…

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