Signal is your best choice for text messaging if security and privacy are your most important priorities. It's growing in popularity and gaining more useful features over time, and it's easier than ...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking more information about Amazon employees' use of the messaging app. The company says its claims are "baseless." ...

For 20 years, the only way to really communicate privately was to use a widely hated piece of software called Pretty Good Privacy. The software, known as PGP, aimed ...

The Trump administration is facing heavy blowback for using Signal, a messaging app, to discuss sensitive military plans. On March 24, officials’ usage of the app was revealed after The Atlantic ...

As ads for secure messenger Signal go, this one is hard to beat. Trump’s senior officials using the encrypted app to discuss America’s attack on Yemen — whether or not war plans were actually shared — ...

If you hadn’t heard of Signal before Monday, chances are you have now. The secure messaging app, available for iPhones and Android devices, has long been popular with journalists because of its robust ...

It's still not a good idea to use the app for sensitive government information, and it's weird that we have to keep saying that. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is making itself increasingly vulnerable to abuse. Current and former ...