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Experts Find WhatsApp Vulnerabilities That “the NSA Would Love”

Experts Find WhatsApp Vulnerabilities That “the NSA Would Love” | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

Shortly after Facebook announced buying WhatsApp, many users raised privacy concerns. Soon enough, security experts revealed identifying a number of vulnerabilities, which they catalogued as being exactly the kind “the NSA would love.”

The security issues have been identified by Praetorian. The company’s new mobile application security testing platform Project Neptune has been put to the test.


total of four SSL-related security holes have been identified. First, researchers found that SSL pinning is not enforced.


This allows an attacker to launch a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack between the mobile application and the backend web services and capture user credentials and other sensitive information.


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WhatsApp homepage defaced by hackers, goes offline

WhatsApp homepage defaced by hackers, goes offline | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Popular smartphone messaging app WhatsApp has had its website hacked by a pro-Palestinian group.
Gust MEES's insight:

 

As with the AVG hack, the group claiming responsibility for the defacement is the KDMS team, who appear to have a pro-Palestinian agenda.

 

It’s possible that the hackers managed to change the website’s DNS records, redirecting anyone who attempted to visit www.whatsapp.com to a different IP address.

 

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