Security News

Secure comms app Signal now offers encrypted video calls (Help Net Security)
2017-02-15 15:03

Users of secure chat and voice call app Signal will soon be able to enjoy the option of encrypted video calls. For the moment, only calls between Signal users who have both enabled the option...

How Signal Is Evading Censorship (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-28 12:20

Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's new anti-censorship feature...

Signal Audit Reveals Protocol Cryptographically Sound (Threatpost)
2016-11-10 18:39

Academics audited the popular end-to-end encryption app Signal and their findings are encouraging.

Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find (Help Net Security)
2016-11-09 13:45

A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of its Key Agreement and...

Signal users can now make their messages disappear (Help Net Security)
2016-10-12 17:06

Open Whisper Systems’ Signal, the messaging app favoured by Edward Snowden and many other users who want and need to keep their communication safe and private, is now also offering the option of...

Disappearing Messages Added to Signal App (Threatpost)
2016-10-12 17:05

Open Whisper Systems announced that it has added the disappearing messages feature to the Signal encrypted messaging app.

Subpoena for Signal Messaging Data Renders Little (Threatpost)
2016-10-05 10:00

Open Whisper Systems, the group behind Signal, was served with a subpoena earlier this year but was unable to produce most of the data it was asked for.