Part of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption scheme is that users must set up the service with a phone as the “main device” for an account. The company announced in July that it was working on next-generation encryption that would enable a true multi-device connection without the need to connect to a smartphone. It looks like WhatsApp … Read more
The NSO Group has denied that its spyware was used to compromise many politicians’ phones, but WhatsApp tells a different story. Chat giant’s CEO Will Cathcart told the Guardian in an interview that governments allegedly used NSO’s Pegasus software to attack senior government officials around the world in 2019, including senior national security officials who … Read more
WhatsApp chats already have end-to-end encryption, but what about your online backups? They too will be covered soon. As The Verge notes, WABetaInfo found that the latest WhatsApp beta for Android (2.21.15.5) includes a test for end-to-end encrypted cloud backups. Sign up and you don’t have to worry about hackers or spies being able to … Read more