With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...

By Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt ...

Court filings show Meta executives warned in 2019 that encrypting Messenger could reduce child exploitation reporting to authorities.

Meta announced Thursday it is testing stronger encryption features for Facebook Messenger — just days after the company faced backlash for turning over a teenager’s private messages about her abortion ...

Google has turned Google Messages encryption on by default for all current and future users. Group RCS chats are also now fully encrypted. Some users might need to agree to a TOS alert before RCS will ...

The latest Google Messages beta supports MLS encryption, RCS’s next step toward E2EE interoperability across apps and platforms. We managed to enable MLS for one-on-one RCS conversations in Google ...

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The ...

Google Messages is the vehicle that drives the RCS chat experience for millions of Android users around the world, but that experience still isn’t completely done. After bringing end-to-end encryption ...

What you need to know to protect your messages Beyond Meta’s suite of apps, it can be hard to keep straight the level of encryption provided by popular messaging services. Twitter does not encrypt ...

Cybersecurity company WithSecure Oyj is warning that a security flaw in Microsoft 365 Message Encryption can leak structural information in messages. WithSecure, previously known as F-Secure until ...

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 ...