{"id":85594,"date":"2018-12-07T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/we-need-to-prepare-for-quantum-attacks-now-top-us-scientists-warn"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:23:48","slug":"we-need-to-prepare-for-quantum-attacks-now-top-us-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/we-need-to-prepare-for-quantum-attacks-now-top-us-scientists-warn","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Prepare For Quantum Attacks Now, Top US Scientists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-need-to-prepare-for-quantum-attacks-now-top-us-scientists-warn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The promise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/are-we-all-quantum-computers-with-quantum-brains\">quantum computing<\/a> brings with it some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-simulate-artificial-life-in-quantum-algorithm-for-first-time\">mind-blowing potential<\/a>, but it also carries a new set of risks, scientists are warning.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the enormous power of the tech could be used to crack the best cyber security we currently have in place.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog\/25196\/quantum-computing-progress-and-prospects\">new report<\/a> on the \u201cprogress and prospects\u201d of quantum computing put together by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in the US says that work should start now on putting together algorithms to beat the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-need-to-get-ready-for-cyber-attacks-on-the-quantum-level-warn-scientists\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-need-to-get-ready-for-cyber-...scientists<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of quantum computing brings with it some mind-blowing potential, but it also carries a new set of risks, scientists are warning. Specifically, the enormous power of the tech could be used to crack the best cyber security we currently have in place. A new report on the \u201cprogress and prospects\u201d of quantum computing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,38,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-engineering","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85594","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}