WhatsApp Vulnerability Leaves Backdoor Open To Snooping
The hugely popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp has a vulnerability that allows third-party snooping on its encrypted platform. The end-to-end encryption that the Facebook-owned company is famous for providing could be intercepted by a middle-man through a vulnerability that creates a ‘backdoor’ into the security system of one of the most widely used chat apps in the world. Telegraph reports: Fears over users privacy were sparked after Tobias Boelter, a security researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered a backdoor in WhatsApp’s method of end-to-end encryption.