While the tech world has been iPad and Apple ad obsessed this week, a surprise battle has quietly broken out between some of the world’s leading messaging platforms, stoking fear, uncertainty and ...

Elon Musk's long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to a massive existing platform—never an easy proposition—there's ...

Signal, the most secure widely available messaging app, has become a go-to resource for journalists, leakers and other people concerned about privacy. But it’s not infallible. And its shortcomings and ...

For 20 years, the only way to really communicate privately was to use a widely hated piece of software called Pretty Good Privacy. The software, known as PGP, aimed ...

Marlinkspike, who also goes by the name Matthew Rosenfeld has had a long impressive track record before he has ever laid his hands on the famous Signal Protocol encryption that is being used today by ...

iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal or arguably ...

Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging services, as required by the new EU law, the Digital ...

Popular messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp attempt to protect the privacy and security of users. Consumers are increasingly concerned about their privacy as more communication and information ...

Senior government officials mistakenly invited the editor in chief of the Atlantic to a group chat on the messaging app Signal, where the focus of conversation was U.S. airstrikes against rebel groups ...