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Google has announced that Chrome will soon connect to websites more securely by default. Beginning with Chrome 154, set for release in October 2026, the browser will automatically activate the Always ...

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Microsoft is investigating a known issue that triggers Outlook errors when opening encrypted emails sent from other organizations. According to a recently published support document, this issue ...

Law enforcement experts and policymakers are due to meet on 12 September to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to scan all encrypted messages and ...

The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read by the sender and their receiver, and — in theory — no one else, including X ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...

Secretly filmed images shared in chatrooms with hundreds of thousands of users, Chinese media say MaskPark forum included images from pinhole cameras hidden in public spaces, Chinese media say ...

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter (now X) and fintech company Block (SQ), has published a whitepaper for Bitchat, a decentralized messaging protocol that enables fully encrypted communication - without ...

Google started cramming AI features into search in 2024, but last month marked an escalation. With the release of AI Mode, Google previewed a future in which searching the web does not return a list ...

In a nutshell: The European Commission is developing a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union. The plan introduces a cultural shift in how internal security is ...