Imagine if the endless cat photos on your Facebook newsfeed weren't just the product of shutter-happy pet owners but instead were being used to pass on hidden messages. Sound like a spy novel? It's ...

Secure messaging platform Wickr is shutting down its consumer-facing app. In a blog post spotted by The Verge, the Amazon-owned company announced it would stop accepting new Wickr Me registrations by ...

Doing its part to contribute to the feline takeover of the internet, the secure chat app Wickr is now relying on adorable kitties to protect your private photo posts. The company is pulling the wraps ...

According to NBC, the evidence of these crimes against children on Amazon's Wickr app is circulating online, especially on the dark web. Several online threads, police reports, and anti-exploitation ...

Wickr app lets users "escape the Internet." — -- It's the purr-fect cover. You may soon be seeing more feline friends in your Facebook news feed. The Wickr messaging app has come up with a way ...

Wickr announced in a blog post that its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, will be discontinued on December 31, 2023. The platform would no longer accept new users after Dec. 31. In addition, the ...

Amazon Web Services is acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr, the company announced Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2012, Wickr's end-to-end messaging service ...

AWS' free Wickr Me end-to-end encrypted messaging service will close down at the end of 2023, as the company focuses its secure communications on enterprise and government contracts. Amazon Web ...

Cat photos are some of the most popular images on the web today, and encrypted messaging service Wickr is tapping into that, along with one of the classic tricks of the spy trade called steganography, ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Secure messaging service Wickr is opening its core cryptographic protocol to review by making the code available on GitHub. The move is a first for the company, which until now had kept ...