The Government of India has tightened its digital security framework with a new rule requiring app-based communication platforms to remain continuously linked to a user’s active SIM card. The ...

The applications must regularly check if the original SIM card associated with the account is inserted in the phone. (Image: Unsplash) The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued a new ...

India's Union government mandates SIM card verification and six-hour session timeouts for messaging apps to combat cyber fraud. Platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram must ensure continuous SIM linkage, ...

A team of security researchers has detailed a second SMS-based attack that can allow malicious actors to track users' devices by abusing little-known apps that are running on SIM cards. This new ...

Millions of users relying on popular messaging and calling apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Snapchat are set to experience a major regulatory shift starting February 2026. The Department ...

Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo has developed an app that can wirelessly send authentication credentials to devices that are not connected to the Internet, allowing more hardware to get online or ...

A major regulatory change is set to impact millions of users of popular messaging and calling applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Snapchat. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) ...

The Department of Telecommunications has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to make it impossible for their users to use services without a SIM. This comes after the DoT ...

SIM binding may require coordination between operating system service providers and app-based communication service providers, said Saikat Datta, co-founder of Deepstrat, while discussing the ...

The government has issued new rules that will affect the way people in India use popular messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat and others. The new rules are meant to fight cyber ...