Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chat interview While Chinese-government-backed spies maintained access to US telecommunications providers' networks for months – and in some cases still haven't been booted out – T-Mobile US thwarted successful attacks on its systems "within a single-digit number of days," according to the carrier's security boss Jeff Simon.…

With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave's quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.…

Near-term vulnerability of RSA-2048 keys not so near, says quantum boffin Scott Aaronson Briefly this week, it appeared that quantum computers might finally be ready to break 2048-bit RSA encryption, but that moment has passed.…

China thinks standards should include central network controls. America does not want that The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has relaxed restrictions that barred export of some encryption technologies to Huawei, in the name of ensuring America is in a better position to negotiate global standards.…

Domestic action and international collaboration to make sure you-know-who – OK, China – doesn't get ahead of the game US president Joe Biden issued two directives on Wednesday aimed at ensuring the nation – and like-minded friends – remain ahead of other countries in the field of quantum computing. Especially as applied to cryptography.…