In this Aug. 24, 2021 file photo, a logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale of hacking tools to Russia and China

“We’re trying to walk the line between not impairing legitimate cybersecurity collaboration across borders, but trying to make sure these pieces of hardware and software technology aren’t obtained and used by repressive governments,” the senior official said.

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Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On

Now that it seems quantum-computing capabilities could become commercially available within the next decade or two—likely in the form of cloud-based services—security professionals have turned with an intensified sense of urgency to the challenge of how to respond to the threat of quantum-powered attacks. One domain where this is particularly true is in the automotive industry, where cars now coming off assembly lines are sometimes referred to as “rolling datacenters” in acknowledgment of all the entertainment and communications capabilities they contain.

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