There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the firmware. The ...

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A team of three researchers has resolved one of the longest-standing open problems in post-quantum cryptography, publishing ...