More than a month after The Atlantic broke the story that top U.S. officials were sharing military attack plans on Signal, the Trump administration’s handling of sensitive data is still under scrutiny ...

Plus: A DOGE operative’s laptop reportedly gets infected with malware, Grok AI is used to “undress” women on X, a school ...

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Surge in cyberattacks between India and Pakistan, Radware cloud WAF vulnerabilities, xAI key leak exposes LLMs.

Cryptographic messaging has been in the news a lot recently. Like the formal audit of WhatsApp (the actual PDF). And the ...

A hacker breached TeleMessage, a government-approved messaging app used by Trump administration officials, exposing archived ...

Senator Ron Wyden is raising serious red flags about a messaging app used by Trump-era officials—one that’s now at the center of a growing cybersecurity and national security scandal. In a letter to ...

Last week, however, Waltz’s phone made headlines again: on Thursday, the same day that Waltz would be ousted from his ...

On Monday, a report from 404Media found that a hacker obtained direct messages and CBP contact information from TeleMessage ...

The messaging app used by some members of the Trump administration and the US government has been hacked, according to a new ...

A judge at the US District Court in Rhode Island issued a preliminary injunction, putting a temporary hold on cuts to the agencies.

After a hacker reportedly stole data from TeleMessage Signal that included references to CBP, the agency has now confirmed ...