For years, messaging between iPhone and Android users has felt like playing telephone through a tin can and string — ...

According to a forensics detective, Android encryption has made it harder to crack Android phones as compared to iPhones. This is a reversal from the norm.

It looks like end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages on iPhones might be arriving sooner than expected. Code spotted in early iOS 26 betas suggests Apple is already testing the secure protocols ...

Android Messages, which has just expanded its end-to-end encryption from beta to production, has a raft of caveats.

With the release of iOS 18 in 2024, iPhone users were finally able to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. However, one important feature has been missing -- encryption. Now, ...

Apple's iPhones and iPads, and a majority of Android devices can all be encrypted. Here's what you need to know: iOS Apple introduced device encryption with iOS 8 back in 2014. All it takes is a ...

Encryption can be used to protect your sensitive data online. Learn what it is, how to use it, and why it matters.

The encryption picture used to be patchy for Android, but in the past three or four years most new Android smartphones—including the popular Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel lines—have come ...

Android also includes a remote-wipe functionality, and you can find some decent security apps for both platforms that enhance or replace the default encryption, making either tablet enterprise ...

Brand new Google Android phones shipping with the Marshmallow software will have to be encrypted before the out-of-box setup procedure is complete.

This Android Shield Could Encrypt Apps So Invisibly You Forget It's There In the post-Snowden era, everyone wants to make encryption easier.

Google has disappointed privacy-minded folk as it quietly decides not to enforce full disk encryption across Android devices, only recommend it. Perhaps it's time Google started enforcing some of ...