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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 protection for users everywhere. This time, the UK is doing all the finger pointing, and it’s because of the terrorist attack that took place on Wednesday. […]
Short Bytes: The researchers at Check Point recently revealed a new attack targeting WhatsApp and Telegram. The web version of WhatsApp and Telegram could’ve had been hacked using a specially crafted image that directed users to a malicious URL for data snooping. Within 24 hours of reporting, the flaw was fixed by WhatsApp and Telegram. WhatsApp is […]
Believe having access to your Friend’s WhatsApp Accounts sounds unlawful huh? but you may do it by way of the respectable way via actually putting in a software called Whatscan. It’s miles available for each the Android and iOS. First, you need to install that software in your tool. Android version iOS model A way […]
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 an attacker to take over user accounts and spy on conversations or steal user account data. According to researchers, the entry point was an attacker’s ability […]
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 documents and files from the Central Intelligence Agency. “The first full part of the series, ‘Year Zero’, comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security […]
Following in the strides of Snapchat and Instagram,hike, Facebook-claimed WhatsApp declared the dispatch of “Status,” another component that is intended to give clients a chance to share recordings, photographs, and GIFs that lapse every day. The Status expansion to WhatsApp is basically indistinguishable to the “Stories” highlight in Instagram and Snapchat, both of which permit […]
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 standpoint it saves the, often non-technical, user from having to remember yet another password that they could potentially reuse or, even worse, disclose through a phishing […]
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 most important features of instant messaging systems, it allows users to rapidly send messages in an easy way avoiding typing them. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and others […]
Exclusive: Privacy campaigners criticise WhatsApp vulnerability as a ‘huge threat to freedom of speech’ and warn it could be exploited by government agencies A security backdoor that can be used to allow Facebook and others to intercept and read encrypted messages has been found within its WhatsApp messaging service. Facebook claims that no one can […]
Short Bytes: WhatsApp Inc. is about to add video calling feature to its instant messaging app. The WhatsApp video calling feature currently in Beta testing can be tried after opting to the beta testing program. This article includes the steps to use the WhatsApp video calling feature. It has been recently known that the much-awaited video […]
An Israeli company is marketing what appears to be an astonishing surveillance capability, claiming it can siphon off all WhatsApp chats, including encrypted communications, from phones within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. Brochures leaked to FORBES, and published below, revealed a non-public offering from Haifa-based Wintego called CatchApp. It promises an “unprecedented capability” to break through […]
All-in-one Messenger, a simple Google Chrome add-ons which combines chat and messaging services into one simple application. In this Chrome app we are able to use Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, Google Hangouts and many more. WhatsApp Skype Google Hangouts Facebook Messenger Steam GroupMe Yahoo Messenger Flowdock Telegram WeChat Discord Tencent QQ XMPP HipChat Wire Mattermost […]
For past few weeks you would have received a notification from WhatsApp asking your to agree to a change in Terms and Conditions. If you did not, you will get one shortly. When you get such notification please do NOT agree to the change. Click on read more and at the bottom, there will be […]
Short Bytes: WhatsApp recently updated their terms and privacy policy. They have decided to share your WhatsApp contact number with Facebook to enable communication between you and various businesses which would also contribute to the escalation of Facebook’s ad revenues. WhatsApp has updated its “terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years”. […]
WhatsApp is a free cross-platform messaging and mobile app, using this app you can send text, videos, images, audio, voice message, multi-sharing and many more features for free. WhatsApp has more than 1 billion active users and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Apart from WhatsApp official features mentioned above, we got a little bit […]
Short Bytes: A new secret font has been spotted in the instant messaging application WhatsApp. The font is known as FixedSys and it resembles the font used in the Notepad app in Microsoft Windows to a great extent. A new hidden font feature has been spotted in the instant messaging client WhatsApp’s app for Android […]
In April 2016, while investigating a Smishing campaign dubbed RuMMS that involved the targeting of Android users in Russia, we also noticed three similar Smishing campaigns reportedly spreading inDenmark (February 2016), in Italy (February 2016), and in both Denmark and Italy (April 2016). Unlike the RuMMS campaign, these three campaigns in Europe used view overlay […]
Yesterday, FORBES published a profile of a $20 million spy service that exploits weaknesses in a critical piece of telecoms networks known as SS7, short for Signalling System No. 7. The company claimed it was able to surveil any phone from anywhere on the planet with just a telephone number. The firm, Ability Inc, abuses much-publicised problems […]
John McAfee, noted liar and one-time creator of anti-virus software, apparently tried to convince reporters that he hacked the encryption used on WhatsApp. To do this, he attempted to send them phones with preinstalled malware and then convince them he was reading their encrypted conversations. In April, WhatsApp announced that it had added automatic end-to-end […]
Recently WhatsApp community announced that they are providing end-to-end encryption for all of their users. This feature makes your WhatsApp conversations even more secure when chatting with your friends and family. Apart from end-to-end encryption, there are lot more features to increase security to your WhatsApp account. Go to your WhatsApp account and click the […]
WhatsApp now uses Signal protocol, which was largely funded by US taxpayers. WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a Tuesday announcement on the company’s website. Given that WhatsApp is already in use by over 1 billion people worldwide, as users upgrade to the latest version, it […]