What Encrypted Messaging Means for Government Transparency
While apps like Signal promise privacy, they often skirt open records laws meant to increase transparency around government ...
Apple Says iOS 19 Will Have a 'Powerful' New Messages Feature
Apple has promised that an important security upgrade is coming to the Messages app across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple ...
What is AES-256 encryption?
You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...
Google and Apple will both support the new end-to-end encryption for RCS
Recently, the GSMA has announced the latest iteration of RCS (Rich Communication Services), Universal Profile 3.0, which ...
Developer breaks Akira ransomware encryption in hours using cloud GPUs
Yohanes Nugroho, an Indonesian programmer who works on personal coding projects in his spare time, developed a "decryptor" ...
iPhone-Android: A Major Privacy Upgrade is Coming Soon
Apple rolled out RCS support for iPhones with the iOS 18 update back in September. While iMessage has had end-to-end ...
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Apple to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages
Apple has announced that a future update will bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to RCS messages across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, ...
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Encrypted RCS messages between platforms are coming, but this won't end the messaging wars
The GSMA has announced that the latest specifications for RCS include support for end-to-end encryption using the MLS ...
Security News This Week: End-to-End Encrypted Texts Between Android and iPhone Are Coming
Plus: A nominee to lead CISA emerges, Elon Musk visits the NSA, a renowned crypto cracking firm’s secret (and problematic) ...