Encryption is a tricky business. You'll run into terms like TLS, zero-knowledge, and end-to-end encryption, which have ...

Right now, messages you send in messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Threema are encrypted to guarantee that nobody else can read them - but what if, one day, a computer is invented that is able ...

The FBI and others are now recommending that Americans send encrypted messages while texting or emailing someone. This comes after officials told NBC News that there was an unprecedented cyberattack ...

Twitter does not encrypt direct messages on its platform, something the platform’s possible future owner Elon Musk has said he wants to change. Other messaging apps such as Signal do offer end-to-end ...

Meta is now rolling out support for end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger, which is enabled by default, as well as new features such as message editing. Facebook Messenger is one of the most ...

Robert Mueller and his team accumulated scores of communications over its nearly two year investigation -- not just texts and emails, but also Apple iMessages, and messages from LinkedIn, Facebook and ...

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

So, what’s going on with iMessage? How come its end-to-end encryption can be compromised by Apple to access user content? Surely, messages are either end-to-end encrypted or they’re not—is that not ...

In addition to a slew of other announcements in October, Google shared that group end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messages would start rolling out by year’s end. Ahead of that, some uses are seeing ...

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