Dear Eric: I have a friend who is on the opposite side of politics from me. She sent me this message: “After seeing your vile ...

The scam usually starts with a short, casual message that appears to come from someone the victim already knows and trusts.

Scammers are sending fake Facebook settlement payout emails that mimic legitimate notices from the privacy settlement ...

Cyber fraudsters can access private data and change credentials of user accounts if they get access to devices through a ...

GhostPairing attack takes advantage of how WhatsApp’s device linking and pairing system works. Hackers trick people by ...

A privacy policy change scheduled for Dec. 16 has been misinterpreted by some to mean that Meta will be poking around your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp DMs.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Dec. 3 with advice on other encrypted messaging platforms ...

As I write, European Union (E.U.) officials are debating the details of a proposal to either require or pressure tech companies to scan all private messages for child sexual abuse material. Dubbed ...

No Right to Private Messages? As the E.U.'s discussion over chat control heated up over the summer, Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard, a proponent of surveillance, commented, "We must break ...

They’re actually phishing scams out to get your valuable private information.

Just months before he was dropped by his publisher, David Walliams expressed his fears about private messages containing ...