WhatsApp said the Moscow has fully blocked its services in Russia, to promote a state-sponsored 'super' app called Max. The move has impacted 100 million users. (Reuters / Thomas White / File photo) ...

Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had ...

(Bloomberg) --WhatsApp said the Russian government has moved to “fully block” the world’s most popular messaging service in the country as part of an effort to drive adoption of a new, state-sponsored ...

Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Millions of Russians were abruptly cut off from the encrypted WhatsApp messaging service on Wednesday afternoon ...

Google said it has disrupted the foreign cybercriminal group behind a text scam operation within 24 hours of filing its lawsuit. The crime syndicate is responsible for a massive SMS phishing, or ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

To test it out, though, I had to find a cellular dead zone. T-Mobile estimates there are 500,000 square miles in the US with no cell coverage, so I left my home in Seattle to find one. After three ...

The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way. The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more ...

For now, the system is restricted to SMS messages, but T-Mobile has been hyping up the technology as game-changing. It's been available as a beta since January to customers on T-Mobile, AT&T, and ...

VIENNA, July 9 (Reuters) - Austria's lower house of parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to allow the monitoring of suspects' secure messages, in limited cases, which security officials have said ...