Signal — Open Source iPhone App to Make Free End-to-End Encrypted Voice Calls

Good News for Privacy Lovers!! An open source software group Open Whisper Systems has released the first free and Open Source phone call application for iPhone users, which is specifically designed to make secure and encrypted calls. When we talk about the privacy of our messages and voice calls,...

New Signal App Brings Encrypted Calling to iPhone

iPhone users concerned about government surveillance efforts putting unencrypted calls at risk now have a free app at their disposal that brings secure communication to the Apple phone. Open WhisperSystems, developers of RedPhone for Android, have developed a similar app for iPhone called Signal,...

Researcher Charlie Miller Joins Twitter Security Team

Twitter quietly is assembling a serious security team, with the most recent addition being Charlie Miller, the security researcher known for finding a long line of bugs in the iPhone and other Apple products. Miller, a respected and prolific researcher, will join the social network’s security tea...

Twitter Snaps Up Mobile Security Firm WhisperSystems

Micro blogging site Twitter has acquired Whispersystems, a maker of mobile security software, according to a statement posted on the WhisperSystems Web site. The Bay Area startup notified its users of the acquisition in a blog post on Monday, saying that Whisper would be integrating its technolog...

Device-Level Encryption Comes to Android

As attacks on mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets have surged in recent months, security researchers and customers have continued to look for ways to lock down their devices and protect the data they store on them. Whisper Systems has jumped into the fray with...

Free Android encryption comes to Egypt, The revolution will be encrypted !

Free cellphone encryption is coming to Android users in Egypt courtesy of San Francisco software maker Whisper Systems. Until now, Redphone and TextSecure, voice- and text-encryption apps respectively, have generally been available in the US only. Whisper Systems has been working on making the...

This Week In Security: Privacy, RedPhone and Adobe

In case you needed any reminders that privacy is one of the more pressing problems on the Web right now, this week’s news provided plenty of them. Along with stories of Facebook’s continued privacy missteps, this week gave us the gift of Google letting users install some Google code to opt out of...

Moxie Marlinspike on RedPhone, TextSecure and Internet Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with security researcher Moxie Marlinspike about his new startup, Whisper Systems, his RedPhone and TextSecure voice and data encryption software and the challenges of maintaining privacy in the Google Age. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Undergroun...