Quantum cryptography pioneers win Turing Award for unhackable encryption breakthrough

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum information science. Their 1984 paper ...

Ransomware gang exploits Cisco flaw in zero-day attacks since January

The Interlock ransomware gang has been exploiting a maximum severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Cisco's ...

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...
InfoQ

Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK ...
GitHub

A small implementation of Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) in pure JavaScript.

Note: this package is not 100% compatible with the CBOR specification. See the Not implemented section for more details.
IEEE

A Method for Converting Oracle Stored Procedures to Java Code

Abstract: Based on the strong demand for independent control and the improvement of domestic databases, database localization has become an inevitable trend. In the process of migrating Oracle ...
GitHub

A Tiny BASIC parser, interpreter and transpiler (to Java bytecode) written in Java.

Note: This project is more-or-less very experimental and does not have no-where near complete support for the Tiny BASIC language. I.e., it's tokenisation process is very basic and not suitable for ...
InfoWorld

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories According to this researcher, thousands of GitHub repos have Python byte code files that contain embedded secrets. You might want ...