WhatsApp to Share your Personal Data With Facebook

Recently the Facebook-owned messaging app dropped its $1 annual subscription fee to make WhatsApp Free for Lifetime. Now, WhatsApp has plans to introduce a new feature that would allow its users to integrate their Facebook accounts with the most widely used messaging app. So far, the social media...

How to Crash Your Friends' WhatsApp Just By Sending Crazy Smileys

What would require crashing the wildly popular WhatsApp messaging application? Nearly 4000 Smileys. Yes, you can crash your friends' WhatsApp, both WhatsApp Web and mobile application, by sending them not any specially crafted messages, but just Smileys. Indrajeet Bhuyan, an independent researche...

Google released the Android key on the media process and the root vulnerability patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Google for Nexus smartphones and tablets, released a batch of new security patches,solved by a vicious e-mail, web pages and multimedia invasion the Android device's vulnerability. Google in the security Bulletin said: the firmware update is applied the radio update promotion to support Nexus...

You Can Now Use Messenger App without a Facebook Account

Don't have Facebook account but want to use its Messenger service? Then go for it because Mark Zuckerberg wants even the people who hate Facebook to use the social network's separate Messenger service. So, you no longer need an active Facebook account to make use of the Messenger service, all you...

WhatsApp Messenger Adds End-to-End Encryption by Default

Good news for all Privacy Lovers!! Finally the wildly popular messaging app WhatsApp has made end-to-end encryption a default feature, stepping a way forward for the online privacy of its users around the world. WhatsApp, most popular messaging app with 600 Million users as of October 2014, has...

TextSecure: End-to-End encrypted and Open Source Messaging app

With revelations of NSA spying and some of the most jaw-dropping surveillance leaks, many people feel unencrypted and central-server service is bad in most of the cases, but end-to-end encryption can be used to reduce this problem. Worldwide Government surveillance raises privacy concerns and...

WhatsApp Spam Campaing Leads to Banking Trojan

Spam emails promoting a non-existent PC version of the popular WhatsApp messaging service could be leading unsuspecting users to a malicious banking Trojan. The emails, written in Portuguese, trick the recipient into thinking they already have 11 pending friend invitations, according to Kaspersky...

SEA Hacks Messaging App Tango, Leaks User Information

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA reportedly hacked into a database belonging to the free messaging and video sharing app Tango over the weekend, potentially compromising millions of users’ information. The SEA – a group of hackers that attacks websites to spread pro-Bashar al-Assad propaganda –...

World's most secure messaging service offers £10,000 if you crack it

Privacy conscious phone users are being offered a new app that claims to be the world's first totally secure messaging service. A London-based iPhone messaging app claims to be unhackable and is offering reward to anyone who can intercept a message sent by it. Redact believes that messages sent v...