Apple’s Messages app is one of the most popular messaging apps today, and one of the many products that keep Apple users tied to the iPhone maker’s ecosystem. The Messages app received some fun and useful improvements with the arrival of macOS Big Sur, as well as iOS 14, like the ability to pin conversations. …
Dozens of journalists and other employees at Al Jazeera reportedly had their iPhones hacked by foreign governments using a “zero-click” iMessage exploit. According to researchers from The Citizen Lab, the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to spy on the journalists. The iMessage exploit doesn’t appear to persist in …
With the kickoff of WWDC 2020 today, Apple gave us a look at what’s coming in iOS 14 this fall, with a wide range of new functionality planned for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more. Apple’s Messages app is among the services it’s bringing a bevy of new features to. Here’s one thing I’d like to …
Google Messages end-to-end encryption support might be coming soon, leaked code from an internal build of the RCS instant messaging app indicates. Google’s iMessage rival supports many of the same rich messaging features available in iMessage and many other chat apps, but end-to-end encryption isn’t one of them. Google is currently testing an app update …
Google has developed or acquired a large number of useful apps over the years, unifying them all under your Google account. Search, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, Waze, Android, Assistant, and many others are all available using the same login, making Google one of the best provider of free services in the world — free, of …
Compared to the simplicity and feature-rich nature of Apple’s iMessage, the texting and messaging situation confronting Android users has been a certifiable mess for years now. Google has trotted out one service after another, such that no one standard has really caught fire across the ecosystem in the same way that any iMessage user can …
iMessage is one of the best platforms that Apple ever made — an SMS replacement that might do more for keeping iPhone users loyal to iOS than any other app. It works across devices (iPhone, iPad, and Mac), it’s encrypted, and it seamlessly handles the transition between regular texting and the rich instant messaging experience …
Google is rolling out RCS messages in the US, which is short for Rich Communication Service to anyone who would have them. In theory, RCS could be the perfect alternative to iMessage on Android. In reality, Google is struggling to finally offer customers an iMessage lookalike, and the fact that it’s going at it alone, …
WhatsApp is easily one of the most popular messaging apps out there, and Facebook’s only chat app that supports end-to-end encryption, just like iMessage on the iPhone. The advantage of WhatsApp is that you can use it across devices to stay in touch with your contacts regardless of their mobile operating system. However, WhatsApp isn’t …
Next week in Las Vegas at the Black Hat security conference, Google Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich is set to give a presentation about interactionless iPhone vulnerabilities that can run without the victim taking any action at all. The talk will come on the heels of Silvanovich and a Google Project Zero colleague, Samuel Groß, …
