WhatsApp privacy is 'broken'

WhatsApp privacy is 'broken'

A new  tool  that can track any change of profile pictures, privacy settings or statuses in WhatsApp.

A major Susceptibility to attack in popular messaging application WhatsApp has been revealed. The latest vulnerability has been disclosed by Maikel Zweerink, who previously developed a web tool called Whatsspy.whatsapp spy is a tool that can track move of anyone on whatsapp. Maikel Zweerink,says that the app can track online and offline status of a user even though privacy options are set to nobody, as well as profile pictures, privacy settings and status messages. The tool features a simple GUI to view a timeline of user and can campare it with other tracked user “The privacy options in Whatsapp act like they giveyou full control over your status in Whatsapp meanwhile
they only affect a very limited scope. Sure, the lastseen, profile picture and status options do work, but probably not as the user intented it to. The ability for an complete stranger to follow your in-app status is pretty creepy and might be abused already.This is not an "hack" or "exploit" but it's broken by design,” says  Maikel Zweerink.

whatsapp vulnerability

The latest vulnerability comes days after a security bug in WhatsApp that revealed private pictures to strangers. The bug allows people to
see the profile photos of strangers, even after they have added the
security settings for friends only. The web app also allows users to see
photos that they would have deleted, while on the phone app, those
photos get blurred out.