WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app, features a security backdoor that allows the company to intercept and decrypt private messages sent through the platform, ...
January 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Facebook has been accused of deliberately misleading the European Commission (EC) over its merger with instant messaging app WhatsApp. Prior to the $22 billion merger, ...
December 21, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Yesterday, reports emerged that attention-seeking billionaire John McAfee had hacked the end-to-end encryption of popular messaging app WhatsApp. According to Cybersecurity ...
May 16, 2016 at 4:45 pm by Ashley Allen
WhatsApp is undoubtedly one of the most popular cross-platform instant messaging clients for smartphones, and even though its first web app was released about 15 months ...
May 11, 2016 at 11:20 pm by Cernescu Andrei
In a move that is sure to rile the FBI, following the law enforcement agency’s feud with Apple over its refusal to unlock the iPhone of a suspect in the San Bernardino ...
April 6, 2016 at 12:40 am by Ashley Allen
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging client which allows users to exchange text messages, images, video content, location details and audio files. As of February 2016, ...
February 27, 2016 at 4:00 pm by John Williamson
WhatsApp has announced that its messaging app will now be available for free, dropping its previous yearly subscription fee, and adds that it will not be introducing ...
January 18, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Today is one of the days where most calls are made and most messages are sent, and that goes for the whole world. Traditionally people have been using the normal phone ...
December 31, 2015 at 8:32 pm by Bohs Hansen
One day after a court order in Sao Paulo banned the popular social messaging app for the entire nation of Brazil, WhatsApp is back in action across the country. In a decision ...
December 18, 2015 at 8:29 am by Alexander Neil
Earlier this week, leaked documents revealed that French police were pressuring President Francois Hollande (pictured above) to ban the Tor browser and to block public Wi-Fi ...
December 11, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Facebook has been accused in the past of blocking links to some of its rival companies, which is why it didn’t surprise us too much to find out that WhatsApp might be ...
December 1, 2015 at 11:00 am by Cernescu Andrei
Last year, the Facebook-owned messaging app Whatsapp, in a move applauded by privacy advocates, announced that it would be introducing end-to-end encryption to protect user ...
November 14, 2015 at 3:45 pm by Ashley Allen
UK Prime Minister David Cameron plans to ban any online messaging platform that uses end-to-end encryption, such that it would be unreadable by the country’s intelligence ...
July 24, 2015 at 11:00 pm by Ashley Allen
There’s been a lot of talks about some middle finger and Vulcan salute emojis previously found in the desktop version of WhatsApp. Metro found the emojis packed away in ...
July 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Since Edward Snowden spilled the beans on how government agencies spy on us, a lot of companies took precautions in preserving users’ privacy when using their apps. But ...
July 11, 2015 at 7:00 am by Gabriel Roşu
