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SMS firewall revenue to reach $4.1 billion in 2026

December 3, 2021

Total SMS firewall revenue will increase from $911 million in 2021 to $4.1 billion in 2026; representing an absolute growth of 346%, a Juniper Research study has found. SMS …

The dangers of misusing instant messaging and business collaboration tools

March 17, 2021

71% of office workers globally – including 68% in the US – admitted to sharing sensitive and business-critical company data using instant messaging (IM) and business …

Mobile messengers expose billions of users to privacy attacks

September 17, 2020

Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to …

Spam over phone and email is changing consumer communication preferences

December 20, 2019

Of today’s main communications mediums – text, phone calls and email – consumers get the most spam over phone and email: 70% said they receive spam often over email and 51% …

WhatsApp RCE flaw can be exploited by sending malicious MP4 files

November 18, 2019

Facebook has patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-11931) affecting various versions of its popular WhatsApp Messenger app and is urging users to update as soon as …

Emergency Presidential Alerts can be spoofed, researchers warn

June 25, 2019

Spurred by the panic-inducing fake alarm about an inbound ballistic missile received by Hawaii residents in January 2018, a group of researchers from University of Colorado …

Slack + Snapchat = AppSec? Breaking down the complexity of messaging apps

June 19, 2019

Recently messaging applications got hit hard with vulnerabilities, hacking attempt disclosures by nation-states and insider employee inappropriate behaviors. As organizations …

A casual approach to workplace communications presents major security risks

April 24, 2019

Workers are comfortable sharing personal, sensitive and confidential information over chat platforms. They practice risky digital habits, and don’t care if their …

Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram

January 28, 2019

The New York Times offers the option but is not on by default, and Instagram offers none. “This move could be potentially be good or bad for security/privacy. But given …

Cybercriminals are turning to Telegram due to its security capabilities

May 8, 2018

Check Point researchers have revealed that cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting the popular messaging app, Telegram, to exchange information, recruit new partners and …

Russian government asks court to allow them to block Telegram

April 9, 2018

Russian communications regulator’s fight to block the Telegram encrypted messaging service continues. Telegram (the company) has been fighting the Roskomnadzor – …

Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps

March 7, 2018

When I last spoke to Alan Duric, co-founder and (at the time) CEO of the company developing secure messaging application Wire, he stressed the importance of independent and …

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