Tens of thousands of users have installed GhostPoster Firefox extensions, which rely on steganography to hide malware in ...

X has launched Chat, an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) replacement for its existing direct messaging service. Chat is rolling out on iOS now via the X app, and it includes support for video and voice ...

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WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android devices, enabling users to encrypt their chat history using their fingerprint, face, or a screen lock code. Passkeys are a ...

Google can now now deliver encrypted Gmail email to any user. Although headlines announcing attacks against Gmail users are commonplace, the world’s most popular email platform has plenty of good ...

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Microsoft is investigating a known issue that triggers Outlook errors when opening encrypted emails sent from other organizations. According to a recently published support document, this issue ...

The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read by the sender and their receiver, and — in theory — no one else, including X ...

Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

Meredith Whittaker, the president of the foundation for widely-used global Signal encrypted messaging app, has said it will shut down the system in Australia if forced to hand over its users’ ...

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter (now X) and fintech company Block (SQ), has published a whitepaper for Bitchat, a decentralized messaging protocol that enables fully encrypted communication - without ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.