The Trump administration is facing heavy blowback for using Signal, a messaging app, to discuss sensitive military plans. On March 24, officials’ usage of the app was revealed after The Atlantic ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal, a ...

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, often sitting at the top as the most downloaded free app on iOS and ...

A messaging service used by former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has temporarily shut down while the company investigates an apparent hack. The messaging app is used to access and archive ...

We have probably all done it: Gossiped about a friend in an email, only to discover we accidentally included the friend in the correspondence. Or dashed off a sensitive text to Gene, our friend, and ...

A secure chat app for the privacy-conscious—Signal empowers users, but it’s no substitute for classified communication protocols. If you’re keeping an eye on cybersecurity — or, frankly, the news ...

A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely ...

The security of U.S. government officials’ communications has come under the spotlight again after a modified Signal app used to archive data from third-party messaging apps was hacked in less than 30 ...

The app, which was introduced in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is widely viewed as the safest messaging tool because of its encryption technology. By Kate Conger Reporting from San ...

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client’s security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. As reported by ...