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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

⚠️ Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

「 researchers demonstrated that it was possible to query more than 100 million phone numbers per hour through WhatsApp's infrastructure, confirming more than 3.5 billion active accounts across 245 countries. "Normally, a system shouldn't respond to such a high number of requests in such a short time — particularly when originating from a single source," 」

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp

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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

Worldwide enumeration of accounts was possible due to a —now closed— privacy vulnerability
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