Earlier this month, 404 Media broke a fascinating, complex, and concerning story: The FBI had successfully retrieved incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, despite the fact that those ...

Recently, the FBI recovered old Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone, despite the messages and the app having been deleted. Now, Apple has fixed the loophole that allowed it to happen. Signal is a ...

Article updated with statement from Signal thanking Apple for addressing the vulnerability. Apple has released out-of-band security updates for iPhone and iPad devices to fix a Notification Services ...

iOS 26.4.2 fixes a flaw that allowed access to deleted texts. The FBI exploited this flaw to recover messages from a Signal user. The patch should protect other messaging apps from this weakness. Many ...

FBI used the flaw to extract readable previews of Signal messages from an iPhone's notification database even after the app was deleted. Tech giant Apple has fixed a security flaw that had allowed the ...

Why it matters: Encrypted chat services such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp advertise themselves as the most secure, private digital communication methods. However, no matter how strong an app's ...

Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that the FBI obtained deleted Signal messages saved inside an iPhone’s notification database. It looks like the iOS 26.4.2 security update addresses this, as ...

The comments followed recent reports that law enforcement officials retrieved deleted Signal messages through device push notification logs. Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messaging ...

Signal messages on an iPhone have reportedly been cracked by the FBI despite the app’s heightened security protocols. While the app itself remains a secure option for private messaging between ...

The iOS 26.4.2, iPadOS 26.4.2, iOS 18.7.8, and iPadOS 18.7.8 updates that Apple released today address a security vulnerability that the FBI recently used to extract Signal message previews from an ...