The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client’s security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. As reported by ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The encryption wars brewing between the messaging apps Telegram and Signal have attracted the ...

A long-standing Signal encryption key vulnerability in the company’s desktop apps is finally being fixed. The fix will fully secure the Mac app, but the company will only be able to offer a compromise ...

This week, we talk about recent developments with messaging apps Telegram and Signal, and discuss the future of encrypted messaging, surveillance capitalism, and nonprofit business models in tech.

Outgoing Rep. Don Bacon urges US officials to stop using the encrypted messaging app after 'Russia hacked my Signal.' However, this is more a case of human error than an app vulnerability.

A magazine journalist's account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is ...

The drama this week over the Trump administration Signal group chat about a strike on Houthis in Yemen in which The Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included has been ...

Signal Private Messenger is available for free worldwide for both iOS and Android and allows its millions of users to send texts, videos, and files, make voice and video calls, and shield your ...

The encrypted messaging app Signal is working on new security measures following reports that Russian state-sponsored hackers successfully hijacked as many as 300 user accounts in Germany. “In the ...