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New WhatsApp Vulnerability Surfaced: Attackers can now Alter Messages in Chats

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Whatsapp is a Worldwide leader of cross platform messaging allowing users to send text messages, images, user location and other media files for free. It also provides provision to place audio calls, video calls and has recently launched a new feature that enables users to place group audio and video calls. Founded in 2009, Whatsapp has become a renowned communication platform with over 1.5 billion users, 1 billion groups and 65 billion messages exchanged every day. Its ability to support end to end encryption, a feature launched in 2016, has been very well received by users as they are now assured that the information that they exchange is safe and secure. Taking into account the huge fan following of Whatapp, the Tech Giant has become a target of cyber crime activities. It recently suffered the issue pertaining to Fake News & instigating messages spread that is alleged to have triggered a series of horrific lynching incidents. Read Full Article Click Here

WhatsApp announced Message forwarding restriction to check rumors and fake news

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Latest WhatsApp Updates In an attempt to manage the spread of fake news and rumors that are alleged to have triggered a series of horrific lynching incidents, Whatsapp recently announced some new features in the app. These include: The number of people whom you can forward a message has been limited to 20. This means that from a single account a message can be forwarded only 20 times. Post that forwarding option will be disabled for that message. In India, where people forward more videos, messages and photos as compared to other countries this restriction has been set a lower limit of  5 forwards . In addition the Tech Giant also alleged to  remove the quick forward button  next to media messages. Whatsapp has added a feature that enabled users to forward multiple chats at once, a few years ago. Earlier in the month of July this year, Whatsapp launched a ‘ forward label’ to identify if the message is original  or has been forwarded. These latest What...