Text message two-factor authentication sounds like a security upgrade. It feels official. It looks responsible. Yet it often ...

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In an era where data breaches and digital surveillance dominate ...

The incident instantly ignited fiery criticism over the Trump administration’s security practices. Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on Threads that “from an operational security ...

According to the National Security Agency, your phone's secure messaging apps come with risks. The NSA points out that while attacks on these apps can happen, it's not due to weak security features ...

IT IS ILLEGAL for Americans to export weapons without a licence. You may not FedEx a ballistic missile to Europe or post a frigate to Asia. But in the 1990s the country’s labyrinthine arms-export ...

Messaging app Signal is in the news, and not for anything positive. Defense Secretary and former Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth recently demonstrated how not to use a secure communications channel ...

Update: Republished on March 31 with a new report into the dangers of secure messaging in the workplace and a twist on WhatsApp versus Signal. The secure messaging apps on your phone are dangerous.

Blocking screenshots is a feature, not a bug, to keep sensitive info secure in apps. Secure flag enabled on screen blocks capture attempts by the OS, causing errors. Workarounds to bypass screenshot ...