Instant messaging world

The founder of "VKontakte" and Telegram Pavel Durov said that back in November 2019 he warned about the vulnerability of the WhatsApp application, through which hackers hacked the smartphone of the richest man on the planet Jeff Bezos. Durov wrote about it in his Telegram-channel. Earlier, the company Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, noted that the businessman's mobile phone was hacked because of vulnerabilities in the operating system from Apple. At the same time, Durov is convinced that the problem is not iOS. " WhatsApp in its marketing campaign uses the words 'end-to-end encryption' as a magic spell, which itself should ensure the security of all communications. But this technology alone cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality," says the founder of Telegram. One of the drawbacks of end-to-end encryption, he says, is that backups of transmitted data are often not encrypted. In addition, says Durov, each application has "ways around...

The UN leadership has given up the WhatsApp messenger for working correspondence. This was announced by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the organization. According to him, the application is an "unprotected communication mechanism. "At the moment, top UN leadership has been advised not to use WhatsApp as an unprotected communication mechanism. So no, I don't think that Secretary General António Guterres is using it," Farhan Haq said. The UN representative declined to comment on the alleged involvement of the Prince of Saudi Arabia in the hacking of the smartphone of Amazon head Jeff Bezos using WhatsApp. Haq said the organisation needed more information. It is reported that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in 2018 may have sent Bezos a malicious file to WhatsApp, which was used to hack the businessman's smartphone. The break-in was discovered in March 2019. Private detectives, who were engaged in an independent investigation of...