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 ...

March 25 (Reuters) - Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers ...

Almost immediately after news broke that US government officials had inadvertently shared war plans with a journalist last week, misinformation began to fly. Much of it had to do with the inner ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

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 ...

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it’s introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations for free, along with ...

Meredith Whittaker remembers exactly where she was when she read the story that would spark the first major crisis of the second Trump Administration—the debacle that became known as Signal-gate. The ...

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 has updated its desktop app to prevent Microsoft's new Recall feature from capturing chat content, escalating the privacy backlash facing Windows 11. The encrypted messaging service you may ...

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 ...