Tweet The company has open-sourced unbreakable cryptographic algorithms, prototyped the world’s first quantum computing safe tape drive, and is providing security assessment to customers of IBM Cloud. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Facebook has announced the winners of its $ 800,000 prize money for projects that look to enhance the security and privacy of internet and Facebook user online and off. It’ll give $ 200,000 more soon. Read more… Neowin

Tweet In light of the DDoS attack that utilized IoT devices to cripple huge swaths of the internet last October, the FTC has launched a contest to find creative ways to secure “smart” products. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Does thinking about privacy and security at the developing states of the internet of things hinder innovators’ ability to build an open system? That’s one of several questions that Usman Haque of Cosm asks in his presentation from the GigaOM internet of things meetup […]

Tweet In a new blog post, Microsoft offers up some more tips to Windows 8 app makers on how to make their software more secure, a week after a Nokia employee claimed he could quickly hack into those apps. Read more… Neowin