Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The E-SAFE team launched the Youth Online Safety Campaign with the hashtag, ‘#SafeUpWhatsApp’, informing teens how they can stay safe on social media It takes intruders just 30 seconds to gain access into a smartphone’s instant messaging services such as WhatsApp,…
Hackers Create a Fake WhatsApp ‘Gold Version’ to get Into Your System
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The ingenuity of black hat hackers doesn’t fail to impress, if only it was used for good. So what is the latest attempt by said hackers to get into your system? This time around they have created a “Gold Version” of…
Did John McAfee succeed in hacking WhatsApp? Apparently not!
Noted American computer programmer and creator of the first commercial anti-virus program, John McAfee claimed that he and his team were able to read encrypted messages from WhatsApp after exploiting a supposed flaw in the Android operating system. Investigations made by a reputed online technology website following McAfee’s claims found…
Hacking Facebook and WhatsApp signals to track 4G/LTE smartphone’s precise locations
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Researchers have made a low-cost gadget to track the precise location of smartphones using 4G/LTE by hacking Facebook and WhatsApp signals. It was earlier thought that though such attacks could be targeted against the 2G and 3G enabled smartphones and 4G/LTE enabled…
WhatsApp joins the ranks of 3D Touch-enabled apps for iOS
With 3D Touch, iOS effectively unlocked a new dimension in which users can interact with the UI of their iPhone 6s and 6s Plus devices. As you’re probably aware, 3D Touch allows you to quickly access a handful of vital app shortcuts or other crucial UI elements by exerting force…
WhatsApp Web Bug Fixed, Security Firms Urge Users to Update Now
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Towards the end of last month, Check Point, an Israeli-based security firm discovered a bug in WhatsApp Web, the PC version of the famous instant messaging and voice calling app, WhatsApp. However, even before this bug became known to the public,…
Latest Android Crypto Exploit Allow Attacker to read WhatsApp , facebook , Instagram Chat Database
Bad programming practices , Android malware attack is to open the database backup WhatsApp chat. Boss Bosschert, a self- billed “consultant / sysadmin / business , ” that is used by WhatsApp messages stored locally on the local access database file system as any other Android, read by the application…