whatsapp security | XenArmor https://xenarmor.com Tue, 14 May 2019 21:30:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://xenarmor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.png whatsapp security | XenArmor https://xenarmor.com 32 32 WhatsApp Hack – 5 Steps to Secure Your Passwords & Data https://xenarmor.com/whatsapp-hack-5-steps-to-secure-your-passwords-data/ https://xenarmor.com/whatsapp-hack-5-steps-to-secure-your-passwords-data/#respond Tue, 14 May 2019 21:07:42 +0000 https://xenarmor.com/?p=13670 You may have already heard of recent WhatsApp Hack termed as unprecedented security flaw in the history of cyber security, virtually making everyone who runs WhatsApp a potential victim. According to WhatsApp, with this critical vulnerability attack, any hacker can gain access to your phone and install spyware to control & monitor everything that you do. The attack was developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group which sells its surveillance software to government & law enforcement agencies. How Your Phone can be Hacked using WhatsApp? As per security advisory released by Facebook (owner of WhatsApp), this is due to critical buffer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp VOIP functionality. Using this attacker can just ring victim on WhatsApp & take over his/her phone by installing spyware. This attack is so dangerous that victim does not even have to pick up the call. So virtually any hacker can just call anyone on WhatsApp to gain complete control. You can read more interesting details here.   Now how can you find out if your phone was hacked and how to protect your important passwords & sensitive data. Here are 5 easy steps that can help you to detect & prevent your phone from being hacked 1. Update WhatsApp WhatsApp has already released new update to fix this security vulnerability. If you have not yet updated your WhatsApp then first thing you have to do is to update it from Play Store in Android or App Store on iPhone. 2. Perform Security Scan Once you have updated WhatsApp, next scan your phone using security vulnerability scanner.  This will help you to quickly find and remove any spywares running on your phone. 3. Unroot Android or Unjailbreak iPhone If are using rooted Android or jailbroken iPhone then you are in danger of losing more of your...

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