WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for all communication, but it also offers encryption for data backups on Android and iPhone as well - just not by default.

Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.

The latest RCS Universal Profile 3.0 introduces end-to-end encryption as a standard to RCS chats to work across the board, including iPhones. Apple plans to roll out the new RCS profile to enable ...

The arrival of end-to-end encryption for messaging between Apple and Android devices remains uncertain, though progress is underway.

However, between an Android device and an iPhone, there currently is no encryption. The industry is at least telling us that they are working on it.

End-to-end encryption has been enabled in Google’s Messages app for texts between individual users, but once this beta test is complete, full end-to-end encryption will be expanded to group ...

GSMA has released an updated set of specifications for RCS messaging, which includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) between Android and iOS.

Two folks who are using Google Messages on Android devices can send secure, encrypted messages, but it hasn’t been available for Android/iOS chats so far.

The Google Messages app on Android today offers its own E2E encryption for RCS 1:1 and group conversations that does not extend to iPhone chats.

Security researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany have shown that they can extract photos, surfing history, and contact lists from Android smartphones, even if the phone is ...

The GSM Association promises end-to-end encryption is coming to the Rich Communication Services messaging standard, which will better protect communications between mobile devices.

This caused chat messages between iPhone and Android users to be unencrypted. Fortunately, Apple has already agreed to update to the latest RCS protocol, thereby permanently fixing the issue.