The new feature is especially noteworthy because of Skype's past reputation for allowing outside access in certain cases.

This is the second critical remote code execution vulnerability of the year for Electron.

Electron isn't widely known by the public, but it's the software that underlies some of today's most popular apps.

The Microsoft-backed messaging software will use Signal's encryption protocol to protect chats, file exchanges and recorded audio messages from one user's machine to the other.

Much of the Russian cybercrime underworld is an enigma, but one technology serves as a crucial common link across all of it: Jabber.