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Q*Bird Secures €2.5M Grant To Scale Quantum Secure Communication Networks
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (167+ words) Q*Bird, a Dutch leader in quantum secure communication and the world's only commercial provider of Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD), has secured a "2.5 million grant to scale its quantum secure network solutions. This funding, combined with "5 million in equity…...
Quantum Private Query Security Advances Database Protection, Mitigating Post-Processing Threats
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (977+ words) Research demonstrates that existing quantum communication protocols for private data queries are vulnerable to information theft via simple attacks, necessitating a new multi-encryption defence strategy to secure databases against real-world threats. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-05T153000.442.jpg Quantum Private Query (QPQ) utilising Quantum Key Distribution…...
Acdzero Achieves Sample-Efficient Cyber Defense with Graph-Embedding Tree Search
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (785+ words) Using a planning system guided by graph neural networks, researchers have developed an automated cyber defence that efficiently learns to protect computers from attack by intelligently balancing exploration of potential threats with exploitation of known vulnerabilities. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-05T153000.442.jpg Automated cyber defence…...
Quantum Annealing Advances Minimum Vertex Multicut for Challenging Cybersecurity Problems
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (716+ words) Research demonstrates that while quantum annealing shows promise for tackling complex cybersecurity challenges in telecommunication networks, current hardware limitations significantly restrict its scalability and necessitate the use of combined quantum-classical approaches. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-06T140821.407.jpg The increasing complexity of securing telecommunication networks presents…...
Securing IoT Networks Enables Real-Time Defence Against Escalating Cybersecurity Threats
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (845+ words) As the number of connected devices surges towards 30 billion, a new five-layer security model integrating AI, blockchain and zero-trust principles offers a promising approach to mitigating vulnerabilities in the increasingly complex Internet of Things ecosystem. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-05T153000.442.jpg The increasing prevalence of…...
Privacybench Evaluates RAG Assistants, Revealing 26.56% Secret Exposure in Conversations
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (857+ words) Current AI assistants, despite privacy-focused prompting, frequently reveal users" private information due to indiscriminate data retrieval, highlighting a critical flaw in their design that demands fundamental security improvements. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-06T115532.185.jpg The increasing reliance on personalised artificial intelligence raises critical questions about…...
Heterohba Enables Stealthy Backdoor Poisoning on Heterogeneous Graphs Via Generative Feature Synthesis
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (664+ words) Researchers have developed a new technique that successfully introduces hidden vulnerabilities into complex network systems, subtly manipulating how the system classifies information without noticeably affecting its overall performance. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-07T111339.208.jpg Heterogeneous graph neural networks excel in diverse applications, but their vulnerability…...
Provably Secure Generative AI Achieves Reduced Risk through Reliable Consensus Sampling
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (662+ words) Researchers developed a new technique, Reliable Consensus Sampling, that strengthens the security of generative systems by eliminating the need for cautious avoidance and guaranteeing a controllable level of risk, even when facing deliberate manipulation. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-08T125844.695.jpg Generative artificial intelligence systems, while…...
Advances LLM Security, RAGPart and RAGMask Mitigates Corpus Poisoning in Generation Pipelines
5+ day, 52+ min ago (615+ words) Researchers have developed a two-step defence system, RAGPart and RAGMask, that effectively protects information-enhanced artificial intelligence systems from malicious manipulation by identifying and neutralising deliberately misleading documents added to its knowledge base. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-07T131826.512.jpg Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems represent a powerful…...
Llm-powered Attacks Advance Android Malware Evasion, Achieving 97% Detection Bypass
6+ day, 56+ min ago (507+ words) Researchers demonstrate a new attack framework leveraging the reasoning abilities of large language models to subtly alter Android malware, successfully evading detection by machine learning-based security systems with up to 97% reliability. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-06T140821.407.jpg The increasing sophistication of Android malware presents a…...