Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

It's just not safe.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional layer of security to your messaging accounts. With 2FA enabled, you'll ...

Quantum computers won’t break the internet tomorrow… but they will break your email security sooner than you think. Today, cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups are quietly collecting encrypted ...

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners had a major flaw that exposed private data ...

Dead phones during emergencies are dangerous, but discovering your “private” messages aren’t actually private? That’s a different kind of crisis entirely. A massive class-action lawsuit filed January ...

Ripple effect: Questions about whether WhatsApp's encryption works as Meta describes have taken center stage in a new international lawsuit filed in a US federal court, where plaintiffs allege that ...

Apple may be close to implementing encryption for RCS messages. The signs of this were reportedly discovered in iOS 26.3 Beta 2. This will finally enable encrypted messaging between Android and Apple ...

Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify “Wrapped” for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet ...

Microsoft continues to roll out security hardening measures in Windows through its monthly Patch Tuesday releases, and the November 2025 update introduces a significant change for the Common Log File ...

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...