Users will no longer be able to forward a message more than five times as a measure to stop the propagation of false information Network security and ethical hacking specialistsRead More →
An exploit proof of concept to hack multiple online services has been recently disclosed According to cybersecurity and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, voice mailRead More →
Intelligence agencies in the UK try to find a way to bypass end-to-end encryption Digital forensics specialists from the International Cyber Security Institute report that intelligence officers in the UnitedRead More →
What would happen if your smartphone could be hacked through the videocall service in WhatsApp? This might sound like fiction, but the digital forensics expert Natalie Silvanovich found a critical vulnerability inRead More →
An Australian teenager loved Apple so much that he entered the mainframe of the technological giant, as his defense has informed Local media report that a teenager, whose identity isRead More →
Flaws allows malicious users to modify content Enterprise network security specialists report that the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has been affected by multiple security vulnerabilities that could allow malicious users toRead More →
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton expressed outrage at Facebook’s privacy policies last month by tweeting “It is time. #deletefacebook.” But WhatsApp’s Facebook-like group chat features also have design flaws that jeopardize user privacy. Maybe it’sRead More →
It was recently revealed by information security training researchers that an analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, wrongfully gained access to the data of 50 million people swept up from Facebook via a ‘personalityRead More →
Security researchers have revealed details of a vulnerability in WhatsApp’s security that could be used to compromise the secrecy of encrypted group chats on the messaging platform. The risk associatedRead More →
The Google Play Store is a little more open than its competition, such as the iOS App Store. With the uploading of applications being so cheap, a free SDK toRead More →
A fake WhatsApp version deployed on the Play Store was downloaded by over a million users, a failure for the automated checks implemented by Google. Once again crooks exploited theRead More →
The UK government has made no secret of its dislike of encrypted messaging tools, and it has made frequent reference to the problems WhatsApp causes it with regard to investigations into terrorism.Read More →
Next time someone links you to whatsapp.com, make sure you take a second look. There’s some adware currently circulating around the web by tricking users to visit a ‘шһатѕарр.com’ domainRead More →
The Brits join US intelligence agencies who’d want a backdoor into the encryption feature on all services. End-to-end encryption services like WhatsApp are once more being slammed for offering protectionRead More →
WhatsApp and Telegram have patched their respective web clients against a common security flaw discovered by researchers from Israeli firm Check Point, a security issue that would have allowed anRead More →
Docs claim CIA can defeat WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram encryption, among other apps. This morning, Wikileaks posted the first of what the organization’s spokesperson says is a multi-part series of documentsRead More →
Short Bytes: WhatsApp has enabled two-step verification option for all its 1.2 billion users. After enabling this optional feature, any attempt to verify your phone on a smartphone will needRead More →
Whatsapp accounts are based on phone numbers. This means your phone number is your username and it’s also used for authentication. While this is not perfect from a privacy standpointRead More →
A recently discussed feature in WhatsApp, the messaging app used by more than 1 billion people worldwide, is not a backdoor. That’s the message from an open letter written byRead More →
A security expert discovered a flaw in the Facebook Messenger audio clip recording feature that could be exploited to listen to audio chats. Voice recording is one of the mostRead More →
