When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday, a major update considered a victory for privacy advocates ...

Instagram is ending end-to-end encrypted chats amid child safety concerns, but what does the change actually mean for your DMs?

Apple Inc. plans to update iMessage with a new encryption component, dubbed PQ3, that can block cyberattacks launched by quantum computers. Members of the company’s cybersecurity research team ...

Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

Instagram has discontinued end-to-end encryption on the platform, meaning user messages are now only protected by standard encryption.

While E2EE protects message content, modern threat actors are no longer attempting to defeat it. Instead, they are exploiting ...

Encryption means your messages are private, but they may still not be entirely safe.

Apple has released the latest iOS 26.5 beta, and it brings a familiar feature to the Messages app as the RCS technology sees the return of end-to-end encryption. Apple Messages' RCS Sees End-to-End ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...

Discord’s DAVE protocol encrypts eligible voice and video calls, but DMs, server text channels, and Stage channels remain ...