When RCS messaging became available on the iPhone with the rollout of iOS 18, the technical director of the GSM Association teased that the next major milestone for the messaging standard is the ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

AI integration into devices could be a threat to private messaging through bypassing encryption, exposing metadata, and ...

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As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators ...

Researchers at Toshiba Europe have used quantum key distribution (QKD) cryptography to send messages a record 254km using a traditional fibre optic cable network. It’s the first time scientists have ...

Apple has announced that it will add support for end-to-end encryption to RCS messaging on iOS, although there are few details about when this will happen. Now as first spotted by 9to5mac, the RCS ...

iPhone users will soon be able to send end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to Android users. This is thanks to the new RCS standard, Universal Profile 3.0, which includes end-to-end encryption based on ...

Senior government officials mistakenly invited the editor in chief of the Atlantic to a group chat on the messaging app Signal, where the focus of conversation was U.S. airstrikes against rebel groups ...