Elon Musk said his social media company X is preparing to release a standalone encrypted messaging app, X Chat, to compete with WhatsApp and Telegram.

Elon Musk’s upcoming X Chat app will rival WhatsApp with peer-to-peer encryption and won’t include “hooks” for advertising.

The European Commission proposes weakening encryption for the public while maintaining strong cryptography for state actors.

If you back up both your data and your encryption key, your files should remain safely accessible to you (and only you). Open ...

Encryption, the simple act of scrambling data so that it cannot be read by third parties, keeps us, our loved ones, and our communities safe by protecting everything from private messages to ...

According to WhatsApp, since the function was fully implemented in 2016, the application has no way of reading the messages or listening to the calls of its users, since the content travels encrypted ...

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 ...

On 29 August 2025, Huntress analysts encountered a previously unseen ransomware variant called “Obscura.” This name was taken from the ransom note (README_Obscura.txt), which also made several ...

Here’s what to know about the disturbing facts and unsubstantiated suspicions that make Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender, a politically potent obsession. By Devlin Barrett and Chris Cameron ...

VirusTotal has discovered a phishing campaign hidden in SVG files that create convincing portals impersonating Colombia's judicial system that deliver malware. VirusTotal detected this campaign after ...

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again. By Mattathias ...

Shiba Inu team has revealed a major development to protect its ecosystem from future threats. Notably, in July, the Shiba Inu team announced one of its most strategic moves, a step aimed at ...