WhatsApp and Android Security Flaws
WhatsApp, the mobile messaging company recently acquired by Facebook for $16 billion, said last week Thursday that reports of a security flaw in its system were “overstated”,
Earlier this week, tech consultant and CTO at DoubleThink Bas Bosschert released a report warning that an exploit in the app’s Android encryption would enable another app to access WhatsApp chat transcripts and use them for any purpose. The key to the hack, according to Bosschert, is that WhatsApp uses a phone’s SD card to store messages, which “can be read by any Android application if the user allows it to access the SD card.”
However, WhatsApp denies that Bosschert’s methods are accurate. The company claims it’s not WhatsApp’s security problem — any user who downloads a malicious app that can access other information on the SD card is always at risk of losing information to hackers, WhatsApp’s data included.
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