Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Encryption means your messages are private, but they may still not be entirely safe.

Just because you have antivirus software installed on your PC doesn't mean a zero-day Trojan can't steal your personal data. The top encryption software keeps you safe from malware (and the NSA). When ...

Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services (RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates. "End ...

The latest Google Messages beta supports MLS encryption, RCS’s next step toward E2EE interoperability across apps and platforms. We managed to enable MLS for one-on-one RCS conversations in Google ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today. The feature is listed in Apple's iOS 26.5 release notes. Apple says ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

While E2EE protects message content, modern threat actors are no longer attempting to defeat it. Instead, they are exploiting ...

There has now been a change spotted on Google Messages, which saw the "No Encryption" logo gone from under each chat sent to Apple's iPhone RCS, indicating that end-to-end encryption may arrive soon.

The beta feature for enterprise accounts allows Gmail users to simply toggle encryption for external emails. The beta feature for enterprise accounts allows Gmail users to simply toggle encryption for ...