NEW DELHI: The uncomfortable truth for billions of WhatsApp users around the world is that the messaging app is not as secure as it is made out to be. WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging tools in the world, has touted its high level of security and privacy, with messages on its platform being encrypted end to end so that WhatsApp and third parties cannot read or listen to them. The company said it was still investigating the breach, but believed only a “select number of users were targeted". WhatsApp said it was “deeply concerned about the abuse" of such surveillance technologies and that it believed human rights activists might have been the targets. In a notice, WhatsApp identified the flaw as a “buffer overflow" vulnerability in WhatsApp’s “VOIP stack".

Source: Mint May 14, 2019 18:45 UTC