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Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named

Departure comes as app courts controversy by integrating private cryptocurrency scheme

11 Jan 2022 01:02 | 60

Bootnotes

Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender

Uswitch's survey may surprise you – or not. Depends how much you like Reddit

11 Nov 2021 15:00 | 4

Security

NSO fails once again to claim foreign sovereign immunity in WhatsApp spying lawsuit

US appeals court allows legal battle to resume, says it will be an 'easy case'

09 Nov 2021 00:53 | 27

Security

WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages

Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud

14 Oct 2021 20:11 | 6

Updated

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch?

04 Oct 2021 17:43 | 142

SaaS

Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff'

For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit

09 Sep 2021 08:30 | 3

Security

Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept

Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going?

07 Sep 2021 21:13 | 24

Legal

WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you

Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out

11 May 2021 21:41 | 78

Updated

Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch

Nation's IT ministry wants what Brussels is having

19 Jan 2021 23:57 | 27

Updated

Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

Install base explodes following WhatsApp 'privacy' update, Musk endorsement

15 Jan 2021 19:30 | 122

Updated

If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app

If you don't agree then, well, you'll just have to use the infinitely better Signal

06 Jan 2021 23:09 | 143

Security

Israeli spyware maker NSO channels Hollywood spy thrillers in appeal for legal immunity in WhatsApp battle

In latest court bout, snooper biz seems to ask: Are you sure you want to open this can of worms?

17 Nov 2020 23:22 | 27

SaaS

Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data

Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful

23 Oct 2020 05:15 | 22

Security

Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software

Brit financial watchdogs foxed by not guilty verdict

01 Oct 2020 06:53 | 24

Personal Tech

WhatsApp India to push pensions, insurance and loans

And use the experience as a template for new products everywhere

23 Jul 2020 06:37 |

Security

Judge green-lights Facebook, WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against spyware biz NSO, unleashing Zuck's lawyers

Legal discovery team could turn up some very interesting, and possibly embarrassing details

17 Jul 2020 19:27 | 10

Security

Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

This story also mentions QR codes for maximum facepalm effect

12 Jun 2020 21:02 | 80

Security

Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services...

Malware maker urges judge to dump lawsuit over WhatsApp phone snooping

01 May 2020 20:55 | 46

Security

Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music

Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out

24 Apr 2020 21:05 | 44

Legal

Who's essential right now? Medicos, of course. Food producers, natch. And in Singapore social media workers have made the list

The spicy memes must flow even under new ‘circuit breaker’ corona-crackdown

08 Apr 2020 01:57 | 11

Security

NSO Group: Facebook tried to license our spyware to snoop on its own addicts – the same spyware it's suing us over

Antisocial network sought surveillance tech to boost its creepy Onavo Protect app, it is claimed

03 Apr 2020 21:37 | 21

Bootnotes

British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in

Yh capten 🎖 bruv, charlie fireteam brups  dat tr33line 🌳 at 9 🕘

18 Mar 2020 15:15 | 84

Security

NSO Group fires back at Facebook: You lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we've got the proof

Israeli biz says Social Network didn't properly serve legal docs

09 Mar 2020 19:33 | 27

Security

Terrifying bug in WhatsApp allows hackers to steal files. So get patching all nine of you using it on the desktop

Dear Facebook, please keep up with Electron and Chromium fixes, ta

05 Feb 2020 23:56 | 18

Security

What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal

Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps

20 Dec 2019 14:00 | 84

Security

WhatsApp chaps rapped for crap app group chat zap: Infosec bods find a way to nuke messages, fix issued

Good news for Check Point; less so for blabbermouths with regrets

17 Dec 2019 11:00 | 24

Updated

From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap

Go Zuck yourself, fam

30 Oct 2019 18:34 | 28

Updated

WhatsApp slaps app hacker chaps on the rack for booby-trapped chat: NSO Group accused of illegal hacking by Facebook

1,400 folks, including human-rights bods, unlawfully spied on it is claimed

29 Oct 2019 21:51 | 31

Roundup

A Nord VPN bug, a(nother) bad Microsoft patch, Zynga data farmed out, and more

Plus, NSA's Ghidra found to contain faulty code

05 Oct 2019 12:17 | 6

Security

Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works

Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception

28 May 2019 19:35 | 142

Updated

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Rap for snoopware chaps in chat app voice yap trap flap – now everyone patch

14 May 2019 01:18 | 164

Legal

Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?

Plan to integrate platforms raises regulators' hackles

29 Jan 2019 11:43 | 20

Analysis

Whats(goes)App must come down... World in shock as Zuck decides to intertwine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

Takeover leads to consolidation? Unfathomable (adjusted for sarcasm)

25 Jan 2019 21:53 | 165

Security

Rap for WhatsApp chat app chaps in phone-to-pwn security nap flap

Memory corruption flaw present in Android, iOS builds. Aaand it's been fixed

09 Oct 2018 22:56 | 3

Security

WhatsApp security snafu allows sneaky 'message manipulation'

You could put words in people's mouths, claim researchers

09 Aug 2018 09:18 | 30

Legal

India tells WhatsApp to add filters, ASAP

Riots and murder have followed fake news and 'provocation'

04 Jul 2018 01:58 | 20

Security

Continental: We, er, tire of Whatsapp, Snapchat on work phones. GDPR, innit?

Messaging apps verboten until they fall into line with EU regs

05 Jun 2018 15:39 | 28

On-Prem

Escape from the Zuckerborg: WhatsApp founder legs it

User privacy rows rage on as Koum leaves to play Ultimate Frisbee, collect rare Porsches

01 May 2018 01:29 | 52

Security

WhatsApp agrees not to share user info with the Zuckerborg… for now

ICO probe: No legal basis for Facebook slurps

14 Mar 2018 15:58 | 22

Updated

BlackBerry unveils bold new strategy: Suing the c**p out of Facebook

Old RIM job on Zuck's bucks, WhatsApp, Instagram named

06 Mar 2018 19:30 | 72

Roundup

Intel puts security on the todo list, Tavis topples torrent tool, and more

A quick catch-up on infosec stuff beyond what we've already reported

13 Jan 2018 10:11 | 14

Legal

France gives WhatsApp a month to get slurps in order or face fine

Regulator questions legality of transferring data to Facebook

19 Dec 2017 15:49 | 13

Security

Over a million Android users fooled by fake WhatsApp app in official Google Play Store

Rap for whack WhatsApp chat app chaps in ad crap flap

03 Nov 2017 20:49 | 56

Legal

WhatsApp? You still don't get EU privacy laws, that's WhatsApp

Data regulator taskforce formed to look into firm's data slurp

26 Oct 2017 06:57 | 71

Interview

Let's dig into how open source could KO the Silicon Valley chat silos

Open Xchange boss maps out IMAP scheme

19 Oct 2017 09:34 | 19

Exclusive

Open source sets sights on killing WhatsApp and Slack

See this IMAP, Zuck? It's pointing right at you

12 Oct 2017 13:30 | 52

Security

Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work

Google and Facebook can't – or won't – anticipate misuses of data that shouldn't exist

10 Oct 2017 07:03 | 88

Legal

Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?

Techies! Will you please stop patronising and sneering! ;_;

03 Oct 2017 09:05 | 341

Software

WhatsApp irons a shirt, dons a suit, prepares business services

Slackers beware, Facebook-owned messaging platform thinks it can charge for chat

06 Sep 2017 01:58 | 17

Security

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Crypto ban won't help trap terrorists

Tells Desert Island Discs that Indie apps don't hand over metadata

31 Jul 2017 00:58 | 38

Software

WhatsApp app in flap over chap's snap of URL mishap

Secure messaging springs leak when looking up URLs

19 Jun 2017 22:23 | 18

Updated

WhatsApp is more like WhatsDown: Messenger collapsed for millions

TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Usual Prattle

03 May 2017 23:13 | 8

Security

Ex-military and security firms oppose Home Sec in WhatsApp crypto row

'We are in real trouble if we apply blunt weapons to this'

27 Mar 2017 16:30 | 65

Legal

UK digital minister Matt Hancock praises 'crucial role' of encryption

Rudd's message to Hancock must've been intercepted...

27 Mar 2017 13:00 | 75

Legal

UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud

Plus: UK needs those with the right 'hashtags' to stop wrong uploads*

26 Mar 2017 21:45 | 200

Security

WhatsApp blind-sided by booby-trapped photo vulnerability

Same issue in Telegram, says researcher

15 Mar 2017 14:34 | 14

Security

Rap for crap WhatsApp trap flap: Yack yack app claptrap slapped

Security gurus condemn sensational reporting of encryption backdoor-that-wasn't

20 Jan 2017 20:08 | 23

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Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named

Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender

NSO fails once again to claim foreign sovereign immunity in WhatsApp spying lawsuit

WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff'

Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept

Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine

India, Twitter brawl in public as latest content rules begin to bite

WhatsApp sues India over new law requiring ‘traceability’ of messages

WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you

Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch

Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app

Israeli spyware maker NSO channels Hollywood spy thrillers in appeal for legal immunity in WhatsApp battle

Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data

Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software

WhatsApp India to push pensions, insurance and loans

Judge green-lights Facebook, WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against spyware biz NSO, unleashing Zuck's lawyers

Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services...

Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music

Who's essential right now? Medicos, of course. Food producers, natch. And in Singapore social media workers have made the list

NSO Group: Facebook tried to license our spyware to snoop on its own addicts – the same spyware it's suing us over

British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in

NSO Group fires back at Facebook: You lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we've got the proof

Terrifying bug in WhatsApp allows hackers to steal files. So get patching all nine of you using it on the desktop

What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal

WhatsApp chaps rapped for crap app group chat zap: Infosec bods find a way to nuke messages, fix issued

From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap

WhatsApp slaps app hacker chaps on the rack for booby-trapped chat: NSO Group accused of illegal hacking by Facebook

A Nord VPN bug, a(nother) bad Microsoft patch, Zynga data farmed out, and more

Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?

Whats(goes)App must come down... World in shock as Zuck decides to intertwine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

Rap for WhatsApp chat app chaps in phone-to-pwn security nap flap

WhatsApp security snafu allows sneaky 'message manipulation'

India tells WhatsApp to add filters, ASAP

Continental: We, er, tire of Whatsapp, Snapchat on work phones. GDPR, innit?

Escape from the Zuckerborg: WhatsApp founder legs it

WhatsApp agrees not to share user info with the Zuckerborg… for now

BlackBerry unveils bold new strategy: Suing the c**p out of Facebook

Intel puts security on the todo list, Tavis topples torrent tool, and more

France gives WhatsApp a month to get slurps in order or face fine

Over a million Android users fooled by fake WhatsApp app in official Google Play Store

WhatsApp? You still don't get EU privacy laws, that's WhatsApp

Let's dig into how open source could KO the Silicon Valley chat silos

Open source sets sights on killing WhatsApp and Slack

Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work

Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?

WhatsApp irons a shirt, dons a suit, prepares business services

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Crypto ban won't help trap terrorists

WhatsApp app in flap over chap's snap of URL mishap

WhatsApp is more like WhatsDown: Messenger collapsed for millions

Ex-military and security firms oppose Home Sec in WhatsApp crypto row

UK digital minister Matt Hancock praises 'crucial role' of encryption

UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud

WhatsApp blind-sided by booby-trapped photo vulnerability

Rap for crap WhatsApp trap flap: Yack yack app claptrap slapped

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