5 essential features of a business messaging app

Businesses depend on messaging apps just as much as individuals. Smooth business operations require instant, clear ...
IEEE

WireWatch: Measuring the Security of Proprietary Network Encryption in the Global Android Ecosystem

Abstract: We present WireWatch, a large-scale measurement pipeline to evaluate the network security of Android apps. WireWatch measures apps' usage of plaintext network traffic and non-standard, ...
IEEE

Implementing and Optimizing an Encryption Filesystem on Android

Abstract: The recent surge in popularity of smart handheld devices, including smart-phones and tablets, has given rise to new challenges in protection of Personal Identifiable Information (PII).
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Apple examines encryption of messages between iPhone and Android

Apple has taken a first step toward blocking the ability of third parties to read messages sent between iPhone and Android. Apple has recently began testing a new technology that enables encryption of ...
heise online

iOS 26.4 Beta 2: Apple tests RCS encryption with Android

After initial attempts between iPhones with end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for the SMS successor Rich Communication Services (RCS) under iOS 26.4 Beta 1, Apple is now starting “real” tests of the ...
The Hans India

Apple Brings End-to-End Encryption to RCS on iPhone — But Android Left Waiting

Apple’s iOS 26.4 beta introduces encrypted RCS messaging on iPhones, but cross-platform Android security support remains uncertain for now. Apple is gradually strengthening the security of RCS ...
AppleInsider

iPhone users can test encrypted RCS texts to Android in iOS 26.4 beta 2

After the first beta was iPhone to iPhone only, the second iOS 26.4 developer beta lets iPhones and Androids trade fully encrypted RCS messages for the first time. You may recall that in the first iOS ...
MacRumors

iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...
Android Police

Apple begins testing end-to-end encryption for Apple-to-Android RCS

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
Android Authority

Apple is finally starting to test secure RCS messaging between iPhone and Android

Apple is testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS chats between iOS and Android in the latest iOS 26.4 Developer Beta 2 release. You can test the feature now on ...
BGR

iOS 26.4 Beta Is Testing One Of Android's Best RCS Features

After years of back and forth about blue bubbles and green bubbles, Apple finally addressed the need for better text messaging services between Android and iPhones with the introduction of RCS (rich ...