Encrypted messaging app Wickr is inviting hackers to hack its app for money. The company announced its version of a bug bounty program today saying it will pay out up to $100,000 for an individual ...

Wickr Me, an Amazon-owned encrypted chat platform, stopped accepting new users after Saturday and will shut down completely on Dec. 31 of this year, the company announced. The decision, first ...

Nico Sell is an entrepreneur and privacy advocate who co-founded Wickr, an app for sending and receiving self-destructing messages. If the description stopped there, you'd probably decry it as a ...

With a correction about a Wickr competitor below. Encryption is meant to keep your messages secret from any third-party eavesdropper--what security pros call a "man-in-the-middle" attack. But what ...

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 ...

When an FBI agent approached Wickr cofounder Nico Sell “casually” asking if she would add a backdoor to her highly encrypted messaging app, she swiftly scolded and rejected him with a lecture on ...

As encrypted chat apps grow more popular, they’re also becoming more popular targets for state-level blocks. Whether it’s brief interruptions in Brazil and Egypt or long-term censorship in China and ...

Encrypted collaboration app Wickr has added a feather to its cap with a partnership with Psiphon, provider of smart VPN tools. Wickr will use Psiphon’s tech to guarantee your packets get where they ...

Wickr, a startup that provides encrypted messaging, is now licensing its security technology to other application vendors. The two-year-old San Francisco company said Wednesday that it’s selling a ...

A new mobile application for Apple devices called Wickr lets people exchange files and messages without leaving digital traces that could be examined by law enforcement or cyberspies. Wickr, released ...

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 ...