WhatsApp Messages May Not Actually Be Private or Secure

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /><!-- Samuel Kibet --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7318175651372377" data-ad-slot="7296074448" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br /><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-49093820-1', 'ulemsee.blogspot.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMkiIqb6iz05dMNqfIJn7HLMDsVwadIrLNWic6lnVHT7hWUjaTDjec6dDjhbS7Xxiwx7-fuAoFCg5ROg6LszijFlGS15L4m4JVAdlEnlWfyHDk3g1wkoCUSLReHXf-A3lrEa8d9X29PV6/s1600/whatsapp-logo-tilt-e1354534335711.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMkiIqb6iz05dMNqfIJn7HLMDsVwadIrLNWic6lnVHT7hWUjaTDjec6dDjhbS7Xxiwx7-fuAoFCg5ROg6LszijFlGS15L4m4JVAdlEnlWfyHDk3g1wkoCUSLReHXf-A3lrEa8d9X29PV6/s1600/whatsapp-logo-tilt-e1354534335711.jpeg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you use WhatsApp on an Android phone, you should be careful about what you talk about or share on the instant messaging app. Using a few scripts and a rogue app, anyone can peer into your chat logs and see what you talk about with your friends.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Dutch security consultant has found that WhatsApp chat logs saved on the SD card of an Android phone can be read by other apps because of the way Android allows sharing of data between apps.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The WhatsApp database is saved on the SD card which can be read by any Android application if the user allows it to access the SD card. And since majority of the people allows everything on their Android device, this is not much of a problem,” Bas Bosschert wrote on his blog.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“What do we need to steal someone’s WhatsApp database? First we need a place to store the database,” Bosschert explained. “Next thing we need is an Android application which uploads the WhatsApp database to the website.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When an Android application is installed, whether from the Play store or through an APK file, which is an installer file for Android phones and can be downloaded from various sources, the app requests for permissions to use network and SD card etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To explain his hack, Bosschert set up a web server and then created an Android application that required several special permissions on a user’s phone. But because Android OS allows applications to access various parts of the phone – this is why users can conveniently share almost everything through any app on Android phone – Bosschert’s app had no difficulty gaining access to WhatsApp data.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bosschert wrote that the code that allows his application to access WhatsApp data and then upload it to his web server can be added to a popular Android app by a rogue developer to fool users and steal WhatsApp chat logs.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The older versions of WhatsApp were so insecure that they didn’t even encrypt their data stored on SD card. The data from older versions of whatsApp could be read by anyone once it was uploaded on the web server. Even the data from newer version of WhatsApp, which uses encryption, can be accessed with ease.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The WhatsAppp database is a SQLite3 database which can be converted to Excel for easier access. Lately WhatsApp is using encryption to encrypt the database, so it can no longer be opened by SQLite. But we can simply decrypt this database using a simple python script. This script converts the crypted database to a plain SQLite3 database,” wrote Bosschert. “We can conclude that every application can read the WhatsApp database and it is also possible to read the chats from the encrypted databases.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bosschert joked, “Facebook didn’t need to buy WhatsApp to read your chats.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The security issue apparently doesn’t exist on iPhones or Windows Phone devices because on these smartphones, apps have limited access to storage and other phone hardware. The more flexible access to phone hardware allows Android apps to talk to each other and helps a user quickly share content between apps. This is very convenient compared to what is possible on iPhone or Windows Phone, where it is difficult to share content between apps. But it also exposes data to rogue apps.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google says that it keeps an eye on apps inside its Play store and removes apps if they pose any security risks. But this doesn’t negate the fact that theoretically it is possible for a rogue app to do more damage on Android because of the open nature of the OS compared to iOS, which uses silos. Google also advises people against installing apps that don’t come through Play store. By default Android phones are set to not install apps downloaded outside the Play store.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">source: <a href="http://tandabiashara.com/" target="_blank">tandabiashara.com </a></span></span></div>

Whatsapp Whatsapp Insecurity WhatsApp Messages May Not Actually Be Private or Secure

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How to Run Multiple WhatsApp Account On Your Android

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /><!-- Samuel Kibet --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7318175651372377" data-ad-slot="7296074448" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br /><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-49093820-1', 'ulemsee.blogspot.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Want to run various Whatsapp accounts on your android ? If yes, your at the right place...</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSqLWHZngWCxvLtW1Dii_CRM94xzM3v3SenYFJPAe7ozMDGdTxSSLlON05L-G3Gg8dMbVnRppyQ4v0FJDKmP2IfbGKK34rq2s_lBhez_yk3LZuil01ChQsFJDKIqSnlBBpcrq7TnF_VG5/s1600/ogwhatsapp.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSqLWHZngWCxvLtW1Dii_CRM94xzM3v3SenYFJPAe7ozMDGdTxSSLlON05L-G3Gg8dMbVnRppyQ4v0FJDKmP2IfbGKK34rq2s_lBhez_yk3LZuil01ChQsFJDKIqSnlBBpcrq7TnF_VG5/s1600/ogwhatsapp.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="orphans: 3; widows: 3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;">Am going to tell you how to Run multiple whatsapp account on a same android phone at same time. There are occasions or times when one needs to have multiple accounts on the same phone such as when you have a dual SIM phone or when you tend to be only one who own a smart phone in your circle of friends or in the family as well. There are many methods to run multiple whatsapp accounts on your device. But all these require Root access...</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="orphans: 3; widows: 3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;"></span></span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;">But today the method i' am going to tell you does </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;">not require any root access</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;"> and it is most easiest method ever.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;"></span></span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.652000427246094px;">In this method you have to simply install a application.</span></span><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OGWhatsApp</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.4px;"> is a new App which will soon be found in different websites or you can also use this app for your smartphone (ANDROID)  mobile devices. OGWhatsApp will provide you to run 2 numbers continuously at one time. Earlier in whatsApp you can only use one number at one time and you can only use one account of whatsapp at one time. But, now OGWhatsApp is a new App where you can use two numbers of Whatsapp at one time.You can also say OGWhatsApp is a updated version of Whatsapp.</span></span><br /><br /><h4><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Features Of OGWhatsApp :</span></span></h4><ul><li style="border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You Can change the Icon of the Whatsapp Messenger.</span></li><li style="border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can use 2 numbers on one device.</span></li><li style="border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can restore your backup and also save your backup</span></li></ul><h4><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How To Install OGWhatsApp : </span></span></h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">First of all</span> Download<span style="font-weight: normal;"> the OGWhatsApp from </span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/96905wuoshd84mi/OGWhatsApp%20v2.11.152.apk" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></li><li><h4><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Create a </span>backup<span style="font-weight: normal;"> of your Whatsapp messenger.</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h4></li><li><h4><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Clear WhatsApp data from the Settings/Uninstall your Whatsapp messenger.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h4></li><li><h4><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Then </span>Rename<span style="font-weight: normal;"> your Whatsapp folder in your SD card to </span>OGWhatsApp.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h4></li><li><h4><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In OGWhatsApp verify your old number and whereas in official version verify you new number.</span></span></h4></li></ul><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.4px;"> All the best...</span></span></div></div>

Multiple Whatsapp accounts Whatsapp How to Run Multiple WhatsApp Account On Your Android

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<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /><!-- Samuel Kibet --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7318175651372377" data-ad-slot="7296074448" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br /><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-49093820-1', 'ulemsee.blogspot.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Kik Messenger, Kakao Talk, Line, and BlackBerry Messenger, which recently launched on Android & iOS, are all the rage these days. Which one is popular depends on which country you live in, but most of them have one thing in common: They don't run on Windows. No web interface, no Windows desktop app, not even a Windows 8 app. But you can use them on your computer anyway. <br /><br />If you're lucky, your service of choice will offer a Windows solution — like Viber's desktop app - but most don't. To get around this, we'll be using a trick that allows us to run the Android versions of these apps on Windows. As a bonus, running the Android versions gets us a touch-optimized interface, so these apps will be more at home on touch-enabled Windows 8 devices. </span><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Install BlueStacks</b></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRJXM0htYdjcZfovhj_T_1nKjveE-qeVBgLWGM3gUYelClUIbjzF9vL0g51IHVI0JWWmub2k3gDf9oiu7eqYC50H3UI8FVwD0mj92uIBMLzuN1BfYC3x2XbjbtN_qcZ1U-aXrg_5ZEDrS/s1600/jjjj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRJXM0htYdjcZfovhj_T_1nKjveE-qeVBgLWGM3gUYelClUIbjzF9vL0g51IHVI0JWWmub2k3gDf9oiu7eqYC50H3UI8FVwD0mj92uIBMLzuN1BfYC3x2XbjbtN_qcZ1U-aXrg_5ZEDrS/s1600/jjjj.jpg" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b></b>BlueStacks is an Android emulator. In a nutshell, it's the best way to run Android apps on Windows; other solutions for running Android apps on Windows are nowhere near as good. <br /><br />You'll note that we're using the Android apps here, not the iPhone apps. That's because Android's openness makes it possible to emulate Android apps on Windows, whereas there's no competing solution that would allow you to run iPhone or iPad apps on Windows. <br /><br />First, download BlueStacks and install it on your Windows PC. BlueStacks is available for Mac, but we didn't test it there. <br /><br />Click (or tap, if your Windows PC has a touch screen) the Search icon at the top-left corner of the BlueStacks app player screen. Search for the mobile messaging app you want to use. <br /><br />Tap the app's icon and BlueStacks will prompt you to set up a Google account before you can start installing apps. You'll have to sign in with an existing Google account or create a new one, so BlueStacks can access Google Play and get apps from there. You'll then have to link BlueStacks with your Google account so it can download apps to your device. If you'd rather not use your main Google account, you can create a new one from within BlueStacks</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Install your mobile messaging app</b> </span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once you've set up your account, you can install apps from Google Play within BlueStacks. This works just like it does on Android phones and tablets. Click the Install button and BlueStacks will download it to your computer. <br /><br />When your app of choice is finished installing, click the house-shaped Home button at the bottom of the BlueStacks app player window. You'll find your newly installed app at the top of the window — if you don't see it, click the All Apps button at the right side of the window. </span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Set up your mobile messaging app</b> </span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You'll now have to go through the normal set up process to set up your mobile messaging app. We'll be using WhatsApp as an example, but the process should be similar with other apps. <br /><br />First, enter your phone number into the WhatsApp application and continue. If you don't have a cell phone number, you could even enter a landline phone number here. <br /><br />WhatsApp thinks it's running on your cell phone, so it will wait five minutes for the SMS message to arrive. You can't skip this part; you'll just have to wait five minutes. <br /><br />After five minutes, WhatsApp will offer to call the number you entered and give you a verification code. Tell WhatsApp to call you, answer the phone, and enter the code WhatsApp tells you. This allows WhatsApp to confirm you actually control the phone number. <br /><br />Once you're done, you'll be able to use WhatsApp normally from your Windows PC or Mac. Note that WhatsApp was never designed to run on a PC, so you may encounter issues if you run WhatsApp on two different devices at the same time. If you're just running WhatsApp on your PC, you should be fine. WhatsApp becomes just another program you can run on your Windows or Mac desktop, although it will stay confined to your BlueStacks app player window. </span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Installing more mobile apps</b> </span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can install as many mobile messaging apps as you like, if you need to use more than one. They'll all run in within the BlueStacks app player window. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> BlueStacks will allow you to run other Android apps on Windows, so you could use it to run touch-enabled Android apps that aren't available for Windows 8 tablets or play Android games on your PC</span>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span> </div></div></div>

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