The viral adoption of self-hosted AI assistant tools introduces new operational security risks across domestic, defense, and intelligence environments.

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Signal is back in the headlines, but this time it's not for a security breach, but rather a high-profile example of how it's designed to work. Recent news highlighted an incident where classified ...

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Republican prosecutor Brad Miller denied that he has Signal on his phone, but Phoenix New Times has seen the messages.

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Asheville City Schools will not make a decision on school closings or delays until Sunday, Jan. 24, a spokesperson said.

An app called “Are You Dead?” that checks up on people living alone has become the most popular paid Apple Store download in ...

The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and ...

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 ...