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 ...

The Signal encrypted messaging application is seen on a mobile device in this illustration photo taken in Warsaw, Poland on 26 March, 2025. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto) I don’t know very much ...

Hackers launched a new phishing campaign this week targeting Signal users — specifically journalists, anti-Chinese Communist Party activists, and human rights workers — with fraudulent text messages ...

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Almost immediately after news broke that US government officials had inadvertently shared war plans with a journalist last week, misinformation began to fly. Much of it had to do with the inner ...

Elon Musk announced the beta launch of XChat. The new messenger incorporates "Bitcoin-style" encryption, Musk said. However, security experts aren't convinced by Musk's vague and potentially ...

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 Pentagon’s latest report makes one thing clear: Signal protects conversations, but it was never designed to safeguard U.S. war plans — and using it that way carried real risk for American forces.