The vulnerable version of the app, which has 100 million users, uses easily predictable URLs to link to private content. A security weakness discovered in the GO SMS Pro Android app can be exploited ...

Signal says it will start to phase out SMS and MMS message support from its Android app to streamline the user experience and prioritize security and privacy. While this announcement may surprise ...

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Signal is removing the option to send and receive SMS messages in its Android app. Folks who currently use Signal as their default SMS app will receive alerts advising them to switch to a different ...

Although SMS remains the only way to be sure of reaching anyone with a mobile number, in any country, very few apps currently support it. That’s partly due to the age of the protocol, and partly to ...

Third-party messaging application Signal is set to remove the ability to send SMS and MMS messages from the Android application to enhance privacy and security. In a blog post, the messaging firm has ...

A fake Android SMS application, with 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store, has been discovered to secretly act as an SMS relay for an account creation service for sites like Microsoft, Google, ...

Google has pulled another batch of malicious apps from the Android Market, this time for secretly sending out text messages that result in hidden charges for users. Lookout, a maker of mobile security ...