For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines and their immediate predecessors are old tech, but they are much more ...

A new ransomware actor called Spirals completed a corporate intrusion, from initial access to data theft and encryption, in less than 24 hours. The attack occurred in June and breached an IT services ...

June 29, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered ...

Consumer AMD CPUs will once again offer encryption protections against physical attacks after facing user backlash for silently removing the feature. About a decade ago, AMD added TSME to its high-end ...

Under President Donald Trump’s renewed administration, Texas has emerged as a key frontline in the push for aggressive immigration enforcement and widespread deportations. Texas residents – regardless ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Meta Platforms and WhatsApp on May 21, 2026, in a Harrison County district court, alleging that the companies spent years telling 3.3 billion users that "not ...

Your calls on Discord are now truly private. The social platform says it's completed its years-long endeavor to apply end-to-end encryption in all voice and video calls. This security is applied to ...

In Messages on iPhone, you can now use SMS, RCS, end-to-end encrypted RCS, and iMessage. Sure, sending media to Android is better, but everything else is more confusing and frustrating than ever.

As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones. Texts between Apple devices in the Messages app, aka iMessages, have been ...

Instagram removes direct messages (DM) end-to-end encryption May 8, 2026, letting Meta access chats. Users should download backups amid privacy concerns and U.S. law pressure. Starting May 8, 2026, ...

As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram. Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has ...

Meta Platforms has officially removed End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) support from Instagram direct messages, triggering fresh concerns among users and privacy experts about the future of secure ...