Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram

Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it...

WhatsApp Delays Controversial 'Data-Sharing' Privacy Policy Update By 3 Months

WhatsApp said on Friday that it wouldn't enforce its recently announced controversial data sharing policy update until May 15. Originally set to go into effect next month on February 8, the three-month delay comes following "a lot of misinformation" about a revision to its privacy policy that...

Researchers: Instagram, LinkedIn Vulnerable to Preview-Link RCE Security Woes

UPDATE Link previews in popular chat apps on iOS and Android are a firehose of security and privacy issues, researchers have found. At risk are Facebook Messenger, LINE, Slack, Twitter Direct Messages, Zoom and many others. In the case of Instagram and LinkedIn, it’s even possible to execute remo...

Experts Warn of Privacy Risks Caused by Link Previews in Messaging Apps

Cybersecurity researchers over the weekend disclosed new security risks associated with link previews in popular messaging apps that cause the services to leak IP addresses, expose links sent via end-to-end encrypted chats, and even unnecessarily download gigabytes of data stealthily in the...

PT-2020-16711 · Bigbluebutton · Bigbluebutton

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BigBlueButton versions prior to 2.2.7 Description: The issue arises from the lockSettingsProps.disablePrivateChat setting not being applied to chats that are already open. This problem is located in the...

Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More

3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users...

JetBrains Space Chats Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

JetBrains Space is a team collaboration solution from the Czech company JetBrains. The product supports online chat, online meetings, code review and package repository, etc. Chats is one of the online chat components. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Chats in JetBrains Space versio...

CVE-2020-11416

JetBrains Space through 2020-04-22 allows stored XSS in Chats...

CVE-2020-11416

JetBrains Space through 2020-04-22 allows stored XSS in Chats...

Cross site scripting

JetBrains Space through 2020-04-22 allows stored XSS in Chats...

CVE-2020-11416

JetBrains Space Chats suffer from stored XSS through 2020-04-22 due to insufficient validation of client-side data in the web application. Affected component: Space Chats in JetBrains Space (Space product). Root cause (per CNVD-2020-25754): lack of proper validation of client-side data in the WEB...

CVE-2020-11416

JetBrains Space through 2020-04-22 allows stored XSS in Chats...

How to Keep Your Zoom Chats Private and Secure

Trolls. Prying bosses. Zoom's a great video chat platform, but a few simple steps also make it a safe one...

CVE-2018-3987

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the 'Secret Chats' functionality of Rakuten Viber on Android 9.3.0.6. The 'Secret Chats' functionality allows a user to delete all traces of a chat either by using a time trigger or by direct request. There is a bug in this functionali...

CVE-2018-3987

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the 'Secret Chats' functionality of Rakuten Viber on Android 9.3.0.6. The 'Secret Chats' functionality allows a user to delete all traces of a chat either by using a time trigger or by direct request. There is a bug in this functionali...

Information disclosure

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the 'Secret Chats' functionality of Rakuten Viber on Android 9.3.0.6. The 'Secret Chats' functionality allows a user to delete all traces of a chat either by using a time trigger or by direct request. There is a bug in this functionali...

CVE-2018-3987

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the 'Secret Chats' functionality of Rakuten Viber on Android 9.3.0.6. The 'Secret Chats' functionality allows a user to delete all traces of a chat either by using a time trigger or by direct request. There is a bug in this functionali...

CVE-2018-3987

Rakuten Viber for Android 9.3.0.6 exposes an information-disclosure in the app’s Secret Chats: photos taken and shared within secret chats are not fully removed when a chat is deleted, leaving copies on the device filesystem that are accessible to other installed apps. The vulnerability stems fro...

PT-2020-8915 · Rakuten · Rakuten Viber

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Rakuten Viber version 9.3.0.6 Description: An information disclosure issue exists in the 'Secret Chats' functionality, which allows users to delete chat traces using a time trigger or direct request. However, a bug in this functionality cause...

Microsoft’s new tool detects & reports pedophiles from online chats

By Waqas After taking on cyber criminals, Microsoft is coming after online pedophiles for good. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft's new tool detects & reports pedophiles from online chats...