WhatsApp users have suddenly been warned that its security has been seriously compromised, and that a flaw in its encryption may have exposed their data. And separately, Elon Musk has also just ...

A battle between national security and privacy is brewing. Governments and secret services are asking encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp to allow them access to users’ data. Most recently, ...

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true ...

Facebook has hired a team of researchers for the purpose of analyzing WhatsApp encryption. The goal would be to have ways to data-mine WhatsApp messages without actually decrypting them. One report ...