For example, losing your phone or forgetting your password could mean those messages are lost forever. While WhatsApp currently offers encrypted backups, most other messaging apps do not, and backing ...

Good news, privacy enthusiasts: WhatsApp isn’t the only Meta-owned app that supports encrypted messages. Facebook Messenger also offers an encrypted messaging feature called Secret Conversations.

For years, Google has been dying to come up with an iMessage equivalent, a key iPhone feature that's probably responsible for stealing plenty of users from Android. It took a while, but Google settled ...

Google Messages end-to-end encryption support might be coming soon, leaked code from an internal build of the RCS instant messaging app indicates. Google's iMessage rival supports many of the same ...

If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company ...

Google Messages is the vehicle that drives the RCS chat experience for millions of Android users around the world, but that experience still isn’t completely done. After bringing end-to-end encryption ...

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If you were greeted with a little yellow box containing a message about encryption on Whatsapp this morning, while you were messaging your friends instead of doing any work, then here's what it means.

Intergalactic radio signals from quasars could emerge as an exotic but effective new tool for securing terrestrial communications against eavesdropping. Japanese scientists have come up with a method ...

"Every unencrypted email is a potential breach, and every breach erodes trust," says Paubox CEO, Hoala Greevy. "The leaders who automate compliance now are the ones who'll avoid the fines, the ...