The Pentagon’s latest report makes one thing clear: Signal protects conversations, but it was never designed to safeguard U.S. war plans — and using it that way carried real risk for American forces.

James LaPorta is a national security coordinating producer in CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. The report found the former Fox ...

A Pentagon inspector general report concluded that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sent sensitive, nonpublic strike information over the encrypted app Signal using his personal phone, a violation of ...

A highly critical inspector general report found Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized troop safety and violated department policy by using the Signal app on his personal cell phone to discuss a ...

The Pentagon’s inspector general has received evidence that the military plans shared from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Signal account to a group chat earlier this year were taken from a US ...

Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, ...

A messaging service used by former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has temporarily shut down while the company investigates an apparent hack. The messaging app is used to access and archive ...

It was connected to the internet on an unsecured commercial line, sources said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the Signal app on a personal computer in his office that was connected to the ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal, a ...

Signal, for most normal people, for confidential, for conversations and phone calls that are confidential, that are just private -- we call it private in public life. Signal is the best you can do.

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...