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Facebook Messenger to offer Unsend feature to delete sent messages

Facebook has made many efforts so far to refine its Messenger app. This year in May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg along with other executives of the social network admitted that the Facebook Messenger has to be refined since the current app contained many useless features while lacked critically important ones. Such as, its UI could […]

Hackers Can Take Control Of Your WhatsApp Just With A Video Call: Update Now

Natalie Silvanovich, a Google Project Zero security researcher, has uncovered a critical security flaw in WhatsApp. The flaw could allow a notorious actor to make a video call and take complete control of your messaging application. Memory corruption bug in WhatsApp’s non-WebRTC video conferencing implementation https://t.co/5sCmNznh4P — Natalie Silvanovich (@natashenka) October 9, 2018 The bug […]

Beware!! New Android Malware That Can Read Your WhatsApp Messages & Take Screen Shots

A new Android malware that steals infected users WhatsApp messages and other sensitive data such as browsing history, photos. This malware mainly developed to spying the targeted especially Android users and its unclear that what kind of surveillance attackers interested from the infected mobiles. The source code of the malware associated file was found in Github […]

You are not alone; Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down for many (Updated)

You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp Messenger are down in many countries around the world for almost an hour starting from 10 pm (UK time). The reason for this outage is currently unknown and there has been no statement from Facebook, however, users are taking questions on […]

Australian teenager hacks Apple

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 is under guard for being a juvenile offender, declared to the children’s Court of Australia being guilty of multiple hacking attacks against Apple, as well as […]

Checkpoint Research Released Video Demo of a Nasty WhatsApp flaw

WhatsApp, the $19.3 billion mobile instant messaging platform acquisition of Facebook four years ago in 2014, has finally acknowledged the critical bug in its “Quote” function. It is a bug which enables attackers to use a fake WhatsApp app to edit the previous message from contacts and pretends to be that contact to other users. […]

WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Attackers Alter Your Messages And Spread Fake News

A new vulnerability has surfaced in WhatsApp’s encryption method that allows attackers to alter messages and user identities in group chats. This could prove devastating as attackers could potentially harm people sending false texts. We have already seen how fake messages circulated on WhatsApp took several lives in India which forced the Facebook-owned company to […]

Users could spread fake news because of WhatsApp vulnerabilities

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 to intercept and modify the content of messages sent in both private and group chats. Discovered by Israeli enterprise network security experts, the vulnerabilities take advantage of a […]

WhatsApp public groups can leave user data vulnerable to scraping

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’s also time to #DeleteWhatsApp. WhatsApp differentiates itself from parent company Facebook by touting its end-to-end encryption. “Some of your most personal moments are shared with […]

What can you do to limit Facebook’s data collection?

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 ‘personality test app’, and used the data for targeted political campaigning. This damning revelation is the latest in a series of data misappropriation allegations plaguing Mark […]

Security researchers flag invite bug in WhatsApp group chats

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 associated with the flaw is limited on account of attackers needing to have access to WhatsApp servers to be able to insert themselves into a group […]

Are Your WhatsApp Encrypted Group Chats Exposed To Strangers?

A team of security researchers from the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany has revealed a series of vulnerabilities in the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp. According to a Wired report, the flaws allow a person with the control of WhatsApp’s servers to add anyone to a WhatsApp group without admin permission. Once added to a […]

You are not alone, WhatsApp is down for many

If you are wondering why your WhatsApp is down, don’t worry,  you are not alone the messaging service is down for many around the world. It appears the service went down at 2:04 PM ET. The users are reporting on Twitter that they are unable to connect, send or receive messages from their friends and families. According to DownDetector […]

How To Delete WhatsApp Messages For Everyone?

Sooner or later, WhatsApp had to allow users to undo their wrongdoings and delete their WhatsApp messages. Becuase accidents can happen anytime. We have heard stories of drunk employees accidentally messaging their boss. Until now, it has been possible to delete messages on your side of the conversation. But WhatsApp users can now delete the […]

ISPs Are Helping Hackers To Infect You With FinFisher Spyware

Are you sure that the version of WhatsApp or Skype or VLC Player installed on your device is legitimate? Security researchers have discovered that the legitimate download of several popular applications such as WhatsApp, Skype, VLC Player and WinRAR have been compromised at the ISP level to distribute known spyware also known as FinFisher FinSpy. […]

WhatsApp refused to add a backdoor for the UK government

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. Calls have been made by the government to force companies to allow access to encrypted content when asked. In the wake of Theresa May’s “more […]

How To Create Fake Whatsapp Account Without Number With Video Demonstration

Hey, Guys Official Hacker Team Is Back With An Another Trick “How To Create Fake Whatsapp Account Without Number”. Yes! We can Create Fake Whatsapp Account Without Number Whatsapp is the best instant messaging in real time. In addition, it is famous all over the world, but with him, hackers and intruders become violent. Privacy protection […]

How To Use WhatsApp As A Search Engine | Activate WhatsApp Wikipedia Bot

Short Bytes: In this article, I’m going to tell you how to use WhatsApp as a search engine by activating a WhatsApp bot. WhatsApp is one the most popular instant messaging apps and this feature could be used to get important information in the form of Wikipedia excerpts, news, dictionary etc. It should be noted the […]

Fake WhatsApp.com URL gets users to install adware

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’ domain instead. Yes, those are different URLs – the fake URL uses characters from the Cyrillic alphabet. As spotted by redditor u/yuexist, the site promises to let […]

WhatsApp scam – Advertising Netflix Subscription free for a year

[jpshare]These days it winds up plainly normal as we see a huge increase with Scam message in Whatsapp, here is another WhatsApp scam – Advertising Netflix Subscription free for a year. For this new Whatsapp trick, fraudsters are utilizing this outstanding TV mark as the trap to spread the attack. Initial Scam Message If you […]