Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

The FBI uncovered a plot to attack the White House after suspects discussed their plans on an encrypted network, known for ...

Encryption offers an illusion of security. It feeds the notion that even governments, advertisers, or the platform would not be privy to the conversations. In many technical ways, that’s true. However ...

Encryption means your messages are private, but they may still not be entirely safe.

If you downloaded iOS 26.5, your device can now access the secure messaging protocol as long as your carrier supports it.

Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social media platform. One of XChat’s red flags is that users must connect an existing ...

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or ...

Samsung is retiring Samsung Messages after 17 years, pushing Galaxy users to Google Messages as encrypted RCS texting expands.

Encrypted Spaces provides "verifiable, encrypted, untrusted storage.” ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between ...