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While this emerging operational interest has likely been sparked by wartime demands to gain access to sensitive government and military communications in the context of Russia's re-invasion of Ukraine, we anticipate the tactics and methods used to target Signal will grow in prevalence in the near-term and proliferate to additional threat actors and regions outside the Ukrainian theater of war,
Google said
Knowing who has spoken with whom at what time and for what duration is already very useful intelligence,
said Vahid Behzadan, cybersecurity professor and researcher at the University of New HavenI will guarantee you 99.99% with confidence Russia and China are monitoring those two phones,
Bacon said of the chatScreenshots or photos are not protected by Signal itself … and if previews are enabled by users in the app, sensitive info could appear on a locked screen,
he saidI think we can assume that any government-issued phone to somebody at a Cabinet level would have all kinds of safeguards preinstalled,
he saidThey had to physically remove it from a classified system and then put it on an unclassified system,
he saidWhat I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the
he wrote
Signal is as secure as it gets for end to end encrypted messaging, but this leak was because they added an untrusted party to the chat,
she told NBC News over Signal
Signal protects against outside snoops listening in on your private conversations,
Riana Pfefferkorn, an encryption policy expert at Stanford University, told NBC NewsIt doesn’t protect against the risk of outsiders accessing the device where you’re using the app. If a phone has been hacked and has spyware implanted on it, then your messages and other files on the device could be getting read without your knowledge,
she saidIt's not a perfect technology, there is no perfect technology. The really good ones are very cumbersome, very hard to access,
Addressing the media on Tuesday, he prioritised technology convenience over security ... he insisted
High-level defense officials have SCIFs at home and secure comms 24/7. This wasn't some unavoidable slip – they deliberately shared war plans in an unsecured group chat. That's not a misunderstanding. It's gross negligence and total incompetence. Heads should roll,
A damning commentary reflected the outrage echoing across social platforms ... exclaimed an individual on X, reports The Mirror USWe always want to use the best technology, this was the best technology for the moment, but again it wasn't classified so they probably viewed it as something that wasn't that important that obviously with the attack being - I don't know if it's been read out to you yet but that attack was a tremendous success for the U.S.,
he further statedEvery time he opens his mouth, Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he hasn't got a CLUE how government runs, how security works, or how America should be protected,
someone else postedTeam – establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours."
A follow-up message from Waltz statedThey named Signal as an app as an example of such an end-to-end encrypted messaging app,
Gabbard testified
Once we learned that Signal users were being targeted, and how they were being targeted, we introduced additional safeguards and in-app warnings to help protect people from falling victim to phishing attacks. This work was completed months ago,
Signal spokesman Jun Harada told the Pentagon
A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application,
the advisory, which was sent out on March 18, said, according to NPRIt’s just something that can happen. You can even prepare for it, and it can happen.”
Trump saidI guess Signal is a few steps above leaving a copy of your war plan at the Chinese Embassy — but it’s far below the standards required for discussing any elements of a war plan,
said Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies