April 19, 2023 WhatsApp and Signal are two of seven encrypted messaging apps that may be forced to leave the United Kingdom (U.K.) if the government passes the Online Safety Bill. They claim that the measure will render more...
February 22, 2023 WhatsApp users have been warned that a stranger may be receiving their private WhatsApp messages and may also be able to send messages to all of their contacts if they change their phone number but more...
January 10, 2023 The United States Supreme Court has granted Meta permission to file a lawsuit accusing an Israeli company, NSO, for illegally accessing WhatsApp servers while installing a spyware known as Pegasus on users' devices. This came more...
October 27, 2022 WhatsApp said the service was restored on Tuesday after a brief outage that left users around the world unable to send or receive messages for several hours. Both personal and group chats were affected by more...
June 1, 2022 Rahul Sasi, founder and CEO of CloudSEK, has revealed details of how attackers use the MMI code trick to hack users' WhatsApp accounts. According to Sasi, the attackers must first convince the victim to call more...
October 27, 2021 The ability for users to transfer their entire WhatsApp history is now available for Pixel and all other Android 12 phones. WhatsApp chat history transfers are now available on all Pixel devices and will also more...
October 15, 2021 WhatsApp is introducing end-to-end encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android to prevent anyone from accessing users' chats. The new feature allows users to perform end-to-end encryption of their chat backups, regardless of where they more...
September 3, 2021 WhatsApp has been fined €225m by the Irish Data Protection Commission for breaching privacy regulations. The fine is related to an investigation on whether WhatsApp had been transparent enough about how it handles information. WhatsApp more...
August 20, 2021 In its renewed antitrust case against Facebook, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has added more details and data on the claim that Facebook monopolized the market by crushing or buying its competitors. In an more...
August 4, 2021 Subscribers of Facebook-owned WhatsApp will be able to send vanishing photos and videos on the platform from this week as they seek to boost competition with the photo messaging app Snapchat. The new feature, called more...
