Tag: Signal

October 16, 2023

The popular encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day vulnerability in its platform. The company launched an investigation into the claims after they have seen the vague viral reports alleging a zero-day vulnerability. “PSA: we have seen […]

August 31, 2023

ESET researchers have identified two active campaigns targeting Android users, where the threat actors behind the tools for Telegram and Signal are attributed to the China-aligned APT group GREF. Most likely active since July 2020 and since July 2022, respectively […]

September 7, 2022

PQShield published a white paper that lays out the quantum threat to secure end-to-end messaging and explains how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can be added to the Signal secure messaging protocol to protect it from quantum attacks. The company is offering […]

August 16, 2022

The attacker behind the recent Twilio data breach may have accessed phone numbers and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of the popular secure messaging app Signal. “Among the 1,900 phone numbers, the attacker explicitly searched for three numbers, and […]

April 28, 2022

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and Twitter’s new owner, on Thursday called on adding support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to the platform’s direct messages (DM) feature. “Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no […]

November 30, 2021

Almost all instant messaging services on the market today make a big deal about their security and privacy policies. A recently leaked document has revealed just how much data the FBI can legally obtain from these services. The infographic shows […]

November 9, 2020

The plan, first reported by Austrian public broadcaster FM4, reflects concern among European countries that police and intelligence services can’t easily monitor online chats that use end-to-end encryption, such as Signal or WhatsApp. A draft proposal dated Nov. 6 and […]

December 3, 2015

The much-lauded encryption app Signal has launched a beta program for a desktop version of the app, which will run through Google’s Chrome browser. Signal Desktop is Chrome app that will sync messages transmitted between it and an Android device, […]

February 23, 2015

New research on tracking the location of smart phone users by monitoring power consumption: #powerspy takes advantage of the fact that a phone’s cellular transmissions use more power to reach a given cell tower the farther it travels from that […]