Collaborate Disseminate
Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack hit its servers.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov later rev… Continue reading Telegram Suffers ‘Powerful DDoS Attack’ From China During Hong Kong Protests
The messaging app that will replace the government’s use of WhatsApp and Telegram was released last week, with security vulnerability included. Continue reading France’s ‘Secure’ Telegram Replacement Hacked in an Hour
A white-hat hacker found a way to get into the French government’s newly launched, secure encrypted messaging app that otherwise can only be accessed by officials and politicians with email accounts associated with the government identities.
Dubbed “T… Continue reading Hacker Breaks Into French Government’s New Secure Messaging App
WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned … Continue reading Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage
Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app, is planning to roll out a new feature that aims to hide the sender’s identity from potential attackers trying to intercept the communication.
Although messages send via secure messaging services,… Continue reading Signal Secure Messaging App Now Encrypts Sender’s Identity As Well
Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has threatened Apple to face the consequences if the company does not remove secure messaging app Telegram from its App Store.
Back in April, the Russian government banned Telegram in the country for the … Continue reading Russia asks Apple to remove Telegram Messenger from the App Store
After the revelation of the eFail attack details, it’s time to reveal how the recently reported code injection vulnerability in the popular end-to-end encrypted Signal messaging app works.
As we reported last weekend, Signal has patched its messaging … Continue reading Hackers Reveal How Code Injection Attack Works in Signal Messaging App
It turns out that macOS client for the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal fails to properly delete disappearing (self-destructing) messages from the recipient’s system, leaving the content of your sensitive messages at risk of getting e… Continue reading Self-destructing messages received on ‘Signal for Mac’ can be recovered later
Twitter has been adopting new trends at a snail’s pace. But it’s better to be late than never.
Since 2013 people were speculating that Twitter will bring end-to-end encryption to its direct messages, and finally almost 5 years after the encryption era… Continue reading Twitter is Testing End-to-End Encrypted Direct Messages
A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the desktop version for end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app that was being exploited in the wild in order to spread malware that mines cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash.
The Telegram vuln… Continue reading Hackers Exploit ‘Telegram Messenger’ Zero-Day Flaw to Spread Malware