Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint over WhatsApp Data Sharing with Facebook

Alleging a trail of broken promises, two privacy-focused advocacy groups yesterday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a recent WhatsApp privacy policy change that states it will begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook. The Electronic Privacy Information Cente...

Why You need to Stop using WhatsApp?

If you haven’t heard by now, Facebook just made its biggest move ever, buying the messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth some $19 billion. That’s 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. The WhatsApp Service run by the team of just 32 engineers, handles more than 50 Billion...

Researchers Find SSL Problems WithWhatsApp

The Facebook acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp has captivated the tech world this week. Much of that has to do with the massive $19 billion price tag and, to a lesser extent, the incredibly fast rise of the company. But while analysts and customers have been examining the deal, som...

Instagram Patches "Friendship Vulnerability" Privacy Hole

Instagram has patched a flaw in its photo sharing application that could have allowed anyone to add themselves as friends to accounts and view information and photos that were set to private. The vulnerability, discovered by Spanish security researcher Sebastián Guerrero, could have allowed an...

Fake Instagram App Could Cost Unsuspecting Android Users

Malware writers are taking advantage of the popularity of the Instagram photo application to distribute a form of malware that can send background SMS texts from Android devices. Instead of downloading the app from Android’s marketplace, Google Play, some users are being duped into downloading a...