Earlier this week, Meta announced that WhatsApp will start to show ads to its users. We wanted to outline why online ads and data privacy are fundamentally incompatible, but as it turns out, WhatsApp beat us to it – by exactly 13 years.
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Good news for Threema Work administrators: With the latest Threema Work and Threema Broadcast update, centrally managed groups and distribution lists can be automatically created and managed based on tags. This significantly reduces the administrative workload.
Email, collaboration tool, chat app, telephone: digital infrastructures in companies are becoming increasingly complex. Furthermore, the fact that the number of cyberattacks continues to grow makes having a reliable out-of-band communication tool increasingly urgent – especially in light of the EU’s NIS2 Directive, which is to be transposed into national law by October 17, 2024. The regulation obligates operators of critical infrastructures to ensure communication and business continuity in the event of a cyberattack. Whitepaper About Business Continuity Learn in our free whitepaper how companies can safeguard their existence in the event of a crisis thanks to solid business continuity management, and find out which steps are necessary to resume operations as quickly as possible. Download the whitepaper
The US-based market research company Forrester has published a comprehensive comparison of secure communications solutions. In the 2024 report, Threema is identified as a leader among top vendors on the market.
As the name implies, instant messaging is a fast-paced means of communication. This characteristic has numerous advantages – but also a few disadvantages: due to the fast pace, typos are the rule rather than the exception, and, what’s worse, sometimes messages get sent to the wrong contact in the heat of the moment.
Preserving privacy on the Internet isn’t easy: advertisers are finding ever more sophisticated ways to collect user data, and new, convenient technology detracts from the negative impact on privacy. The resulting decline in online privacy is further fueled by the fact that online privacy can, due to its abstract nature, be quite hard to grasp.
Mobile instant messengers became popular as a replacement for SMS messages. Today, they are one of the most widely used Internet services and are no longer limited to written communication – voice messages and video calls are now just as much a part of chat apps as text messages.
As highlighted by recent news stories and social media posts, the desktop apps of some messaging services are affected by a long-standing security issue. We’ve been asked whether Threema’s desktop client also suffers from this or any similar flaw. The short answer: No. Threema users don’t need to take any precautions and can continue to use the desktop app. The longer, more explanatory answer:
The number of cyber incidents has been rising for years, and attacks on companies are becoming more aggressive and increasingly sophisticated. These worrying trends pose new organizational and financial challenges for companies. A study commissioned by Threema felt the pulse of managers from different business sectors. The goal of the study was to see what role cybersecurity plays in companies, with a focus on communication tools and mobile devices.
