Tuesday, February 3

New WhatsApp Security Bug allows Strangers to view your Private Photos...

For most of the people, who are using smartphones, WhatsApp is one of those apps without which their whole life could be disrupted. So you can understand how much important isWhatsApp and more important is to provide secure access to the users.
But the introduction of the new WhatsApp Web interface has put up a question mark on the security of the app. WhatsApp introduced this to increase their user base and to provide easy access to the users who want to use the app on their personal computers.
 "Today, for the first time, millions of our users will have the ability to use WhatsApp on their web browser. Our web client is simply an extension of the phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from the mobile device---- this means all of the messages still live on the phone," WhatsApp said.
"17-year-old security researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan has discovered a privacy hole in WhatsApp that could expose your account's profile photo to complete strangers, even if you have set it to 'Contacts Only'," Security Expert Graham Cluley wrote on his blog. He also said “Sure, it’s not the most serious privacy breach that has ever occurred, but that’s missing the point. The fact of the matter is that WhatsApp users chose to keep their profile photos private, and their expectation is that WhatsApp will honor their choices and only allow their photos to be viewed by those who the user has approved.”

However, an online privacy tool endorsed by Edward Snowden is being used to protect WhatsApp messages from snooping by encrypting them as they travel the Internet.

Bhuyan demonstrated the bug in the following video that he posted on YouTube.





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