A technical breakdown of how a VPN works: packet handling, protocol comparisons, DNS and WebRTC leak vectors, kill switch ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Meta Platforms and WhatsApp on May 21, 2026, in a Harrison County district court, alleging that the companies spent years telling 3.3 billion users that "not ...

Discord is now using end-to-end encryption for all voice and video calls across all platforms: desktop, mobile, web and console. It’s been a very long time coming – the company first shared its ...

Discord just completed something it started back in 2023, and while the result is genuinely impressive, there’s a big asterisk in place. As of early March 2026, every standard voice and video call on ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant implementing Kyber1024 post-quantum encryption. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

The developer of the popular file encryption software VeraCrypt says Microsoft has blocked access to the account he used for sending updates to Windows users, and warned that anyone who encrypts their ...

Meta will disable end-to-end encryption on Instagram starting May 8, 2026. This allows the company to potentially access message content for AI training and advertising. Currently, Signal remains the ...

Powerful quantum computers may be closer than scientists thought. To unleash the technology’s full power, scientists have long thought that quantum computers with millions of quantum bits, or qubits, ...

TL;DR: Google has dramatically accelerated its timeline for securing its infrastructure against quantum computing threats, setting a 2029 deadline for full readiness – years ahead of most government ...