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We break down Elon Musk’s new messaging app, XChat: here’s what we know about its end-to-end encryption, and whether the new service can truly compete with Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram.

Which social networks mostly just display your posts to your friends, and which ones use them for AI training and ad targeting? We explore the 2025 privacy rankings for popular social media platforms.

Funny hacks that became internet legends: talking traffic lights, a high-school Rickroll, robot vacuums on the rampage, a Lenovo defacement, and a Burger King hijack.

Fraudsters are buying blue checkmarks to impersonate well-known brands on X (ex-Twitter) and scam users.

We explain what the Fediverse is, how it works, where you can experience it today, and what to expect in the future.

Discussing privacy in Threads, and whether you should sign up to Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone.

How to know if you’re facing a scam: we identify all the red flags in a recent scam that deployed a fake cryptocurrency exchange

Scammers pretend to represent brands on Twitter and lure customers onto phishing websites. Here’s how to avoid it.

How to protect your clients from cybercriminals impersonating your company on Twitter.

We tell you which security and privacy settings will hold Twitter hackers and spammers at bay.

Twitter has taken actions to prevent attacks with strobing images on people with epilepsy. Are these actions sufficient?

Ready to delete your Twitter account? Here’s how. But you’d better back up your tweets first.

Twitter cryptocurrency scams are becoming more and more advanced and convincing, with scammers using new techniques and some heavy artillery.

How security researchers were able to track down cryptocurrency bots on Twitter.

How Twitter’s “not-a-leak” made me realize that remembering passwords no longer works.

Twitter debuts a grand but simple plan to replace passwords where your phone number is your username and an SMS-generated code is your password.

According to research by Kaspersky Lab, 22 percent of phishing scams on the web target Facebook.

A serious cross site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the popular Twitter application TweetDeck today. Users should revoke access to that app on Twitter as soon as possible.

Not long ago, Twitter was a novelty social media site that average users thought was silly. Now the microblogging tool is a vital news source and publishing platform, letting anyone

Twitter has recently caught up with competitors like Facebook and Google by improving user protection with two-factor authentication. This will help us all forget about those much talked about account

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell precipitously Tuesday after a group of pro-Syrian hackers took control of an Associated Press Twitter account and tweeted that U.S. President Barack Obama had been injured