Tag Archives: signal

Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

Waltz was removed from his post late last week, with Trump nominating him to serve as ambassador to the United Nations. TeleMessage website removes Signal mentions The TeleMessage website until recently boasted the ability to “capture, archive and monitor mobile communication” through text messages, voice calls, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, and Signal, as seen in an… Read More »

Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes

Signal, as an encrypted messaging app and protocol, remains relatively secure. But Signal’s growing popularity as a tool to circumvent surveillance has led agents affiliated with Russia to try to manipulate the app’s users into surreptitiously linking their devices, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. While Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine is likely driving the… Read More »

iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal

reader comments 43 iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal or arguably incrementally more hardened. On Wednesday, Apple said messages sent through iMessage will now be protected by two forms of end-to-end encryption… Read More »

The Signal Protocol used by 1+ billion people is getting a post-quantum makeover

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 53 with The Signal Foundation, maker of the Signal Protocol that encrypts messages sent by more than a billion people, has rolled out an update designed to prepare for a very real prospect that’s never far from the thoughts of just about every security engineer on the planet:… Read More »

Google removes fake Signal and Telegram apps hosted on Play

Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 11 with Researchers on Wednesday said they found fake apps in Google Play that masqueraded as legitimate ones for the Signal and Telegram messaging platforms. The malicious apps could pull messages or other sensitive information from legitimate accounts when users took certain actions. An app with the… Read More »

Signal CEO: We “1,000% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken encryption

Enlarge / Signal app on a phone. Getty Images reader comments 51 with Share this story The nonprofit responsible for the Signal messenger app is prepared to exit the UK if the country requires providers of encrypted communications to alter their products to ensure user messages are free of material that’s harmful to children. “We… Read More »