The Pegasus tool enabled “zero-click” attacks that could infect devices without any user interaction, a capability governments allegedly used to surveil journalists, dissidents and activists worldwide.
The messaging app Telegram has said it will hand over users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities who have search warrants or other valid legal requests. The change to its terms of service and privacy policy “should discourage criminals”, CEO Pavel Durov said in a Telegram post on Monday. “While 99.999% of Telegram users […]
YouTube emerged as the third most popular social media platform in Kenya with a market share of 29.5pc while TikTok grew to 23pc from 17.8pc to 23pc.
For smartphone users with fumble fingers, or anyone who sent an embarrassing misspelling or autocorrect, help is finally at hand. WhatsApp, one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, has introduced a long-desired feature: the ability to edit messages after sending them. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, […]
Instant messaging platform WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, has announced that it would be introducing ‘Communities’, a feature for grouping together similar interest groups. This feature however will initially be rolled out to a small, select number of groups and will let thousands participate in a community that hosts multiple sub-group chats. 📣 We're […]
Oct 4 (Reuters) – Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet late on Monday afternoon Eastern time, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what website monitoring group […]
The Facebook-owned Whats App posted a security advisory about the bug, named CVE-2019-11931, which affects earlier versions of the app on both Android and iOS devices. They quoted India’s Computer Emergency Response Team that issued a warning over a malicious video allegedly intended to remotely access WhatsApp accounts. The security agency issued the advisory after […]
In what the company term as a move to curb widespread of fake news or extremist content, WhatsApp has announced that they are going to block users from forwarding messages to more than five individuals or groups. “We settled on five because we believe this is a reasonable number to reach close friends while helping […]
Are you a group admin on Facebook or whatsApp? You might soon be required to obtain clearance from the Communication Authority (CA). Before setting up groups on WhatsApp and Facebook group admins will be required to apply for licences from the CA if a Bill sponsored by Malava MP Malulu Injendi gets passed. The Bill […]
Facebook has now confirmed that they were working on a new multi-platform feature. The feature has now been confirmed and WhatsApp users will be able to access the popular messaging app on their multiple devices simultaneously. This is according to WhatsApp tipster WABetaInfo, which stated that it’s “no longer a rumor, it’s confirmed”. Confirming that […]
