The next generation of computers could crack bank and financial industry coding systems and trigger catastrophic security breaches unless controls are introduced, a Cork-based scientist has warned.

Existing online security technology would not survive an attack once quantum computing has been developed, said Dr Emanuele Pelucchi from the Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork (UCC).

Dr Pelucchi will speak at a public lecture this evening at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition in London.

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