Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging services. In a message sent to his Telegram channel, founder Pavel Durov’s just wrote: “I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 …

A few months ago, I wrote a post on SMS logins following a wave of attacks attempting to take over Iranian Telegram accounts. Recently, there have been new confirmed cases of attacks in both Iran and Russia. Oleg Kozlovsky is an opposition activist and the director of Vision of Tomorrow Center in Moscow. In a...

This is the end of era centralized communication!

Popular secure messaging service Telegram loses battle with Russian courts and now must hand over encryption keys or face being blocked from the country.

Many don't seem to understand why I object to @Telegram having unsafe, censorable public channels in an app that is promoted as a secure messenger. Some presumed I just don't understand how channels work. So let's talk about it

On Friday, the Tagansky District Court in Moscow is expected to rule on a request by Roskomnadzor, the Russian media watchdog, to block Telegram for its refusal to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with backdoor access to encrypted messages.

Apple has removed Telegram’s official app from its iOS App Store. The app disappeared yesterday, shortly after Telegram launched a rewritten Telegram X app for Android. Telegram X is currently in...

It could get blocked if it refuses

Even with end-to-end encryption Big Brother is still in your phone: metadata

Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, Signal's at times elusive privacy revolutionary Moxie Marlinspike spoke modestly about how his secure text message app is taking over the world. Marlinspike directly addressed the controversy that Telegram Messenger founder Pavel Durov stirred up earlier this …

The app, which has become popular with terrorists, was once run in part from a Buffalo, N.Y., office.

Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the popular secure messaging app Telegram has revealed in a series of tweets that U.