The desktop variant for Telegram secure messaging app fails to protect chat content locally and offers access to plain text conversations and media that otherwise travel encrypted. Telegram’s focus on ...

The government of India has scrapped a proposal for a new law on encryption that would have required all citizens to maintain a plain-text version of their encrypted ...

Android smartphones, like other phones, send text messages in plain text. The text messages can be intercepted and read on the network. The text messages could also be read by anyone with access to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After the security flaw was spotted, OpenAI updated its desktop ChatGPT app to encrypt the locally stored records ...

Meta has confirmed it will end end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats on Instagram in May 2026, a move that could reshape ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Facebook isn't the only big tech company found to be storing passwords in plain text. Google has warned G Suite users that an "error" in a password recovery implementation left some of their passwords ...