San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie demanded that power be restored at the city’s Opera House — so his daughter could perform as ...

Vega Security raised $120 million, bringing its valuation to $700 million, in a round led by Accel. The company aims to ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...

WhatsApp is claiming that a new lawsuit accusing it of failing to encrypt users’ communications is simply retaliation from an Israeli spyware company it has been battling for years. The longstanding ...

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End-to-end encryption (nicknamed E2EE) has been a major selling point of Meta's WhatsApp messenger since the feature was introduced in 2016. In short, true E2EE ensures that texts, calls, images, and ...

An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service. Meta has made so called “end ...

Apple appears close to supporting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, almost a year after the GSM Association said it was working to implement the privacy feature for messages sent between ...

Apple is reportedly moving closer to end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Rich Communication Services (RCS) messages, nearly a year after first announcing the feature in March 2025. The latest iOS 26.3 ...

Microsoft is investigating a bug preventing recipients from opening encrypted emails in classic Outlook after a recent update. This known issue affects users who try to open messages encrypted with ...

No Right to Private Messages? As the E.U.'s discussion over chat control heated up over the summer, Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard, a proponent of surveillance, commented, "We must break ...