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Messaging apps verboten until they fall into line with EU regs Multinational car parts maker Continental AG has banned its employees from using Whatsapp and Snapchat on their work phones due to...

German car parts supplier Continental on Tuesday said it was banning the use of WhatsApp and Snapchat on work-issued mobile phones "with immediate effect" because of data protection concerns. read more

"Text bomb, text bomb, WhatsApp text bomb, you can crash my application when I want to get things done."

Facebook announced a whole lot of new features at its 2018 Facebook F8 developers conference, including Dating on Facebook, letting users clear their web browsing history, real-time language...

Enhanced social media images of the man's fingers led to the takedown of 11 members of a drug ring and his sentencing.

When you think of phishing, you probably think of email - but the crooks know how to abuse closed messaging systems like WhatsApp, too.

Open Whisper Systems, the organization behind the privacy-focused messaging app Signal, announced on Wednesday the launch of the Signal Foundation, with an initial investment of $50 million from...

A new vulnerability in WhatsApp has been discovered: ...the researchers unearthed far more significant gaps in WhatsApp's security: They say that anyone who controls WhatsApp's servers could...

Researchers have discovered flaws in the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema messaging apps handle secure (encrypted) group communication, which could result in unauthorized users getting added to...

WhatsApp said that claims that infiltrators can add themselves to an encrypted group chat without being noticed is incorrect.