In early versions of the Android SDK, Google supplied an implementation of XMPP for peer to peer communication and for an always-on connection for push services. In M5 it was replaced by a Google ...

Many users of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—formerly Jabber) chat services are going to be more secure starting this week. The XMPP Standards Foundation announced that a large ...

When Google announced that it was consolidating its Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) instant messaging and video-conferencing services into Google Hangouts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ...

Beginning today, operators of instant massaging services that rely on the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP) are expected to deploy encryption into the messaging platforms they maintain ...

A new strain of Android ransomware disguised as a video player app uses an instant messaging protocol called XMPP to receive commands and communicate with the command and control server. A new strain ...

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Microsoft has announced that it now supports the open-standard XMPP protocol to access the Windows Live Messenger service, having relied on its own proprietary service for many years. Microsoft has ...

A new variant of mobile ransomware that encrypts the content of Android smartphones is putting a new spin on both how it communicates with its masters and how it spurs its victims into action. The ...

XMPP—which stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—is an XML-based protocol for real-time communication. Also known as Jabber, XMPP is an open standard that enables interoperability and ...

In recent months, security researchers, hackers, and other dwellers of the cyber-criminal underground have noticed an uptick in XMPP (formerly Jabber) spam. At the bottom of the vast majority of these ...