{"id":245422,"date":"2026-10-15T01:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ibm-executive-warns-of-risk-of-quantum-computing-hacks"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:47:27","slug":"ibm-executive-warns-of-risk-of-quantum-computing-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ibm-executive-warns-of-risk-of-quantum-computing-hacks","title":{"rendered":"IBM executive warns of risk of quantum computing hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-executive-warns-of-risk-of-quantum-computing-hacks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organizations are unprepared for the risks posed by quantum computing, IBM\u2019s Europe and Africa vice president Alessandro Curioni told AFP Wednesday, referring to the high-speed technology that could crack security encryptions and enable large-scale cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the world, how many organizations became quantum-safe? I would say less than 10% today,\u201d Curioni said on the sidelines of a London conference organized by the American technology pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>IBM, a leader in the field competing against Microsoft and Google, aims to develop a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-quantum-built-qubits-team.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">\u201clarge-scale, fault-tolerant\u201d quantum computer<\/a> for commercial clients by 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations are unprepared for the risks posed by quantum computing, IBM\u2019s Europe and Africa vice president Alessandro Curioni told AFP Wednesday, referring to the high-speed technology that could crack security encryptions and enable large-scale cyberattacks. \u201cIf you look at the world, how many organizations became quantum-safe? I would say less than 10% today,\u201d Curioni said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}