Without this, an attacker can’t hijack your account, even if they get hold of that SMS code. All you need to do is add a PIN number in your app. And if the attacker adds extra security to your account, security you should have added yourself, then you can be without WhatsApp for a week or longer. You will get your account back-but it will take time. As soon as you do, you lose your account. You then get a text with a six-digit code and they use the already hijacked account of one of your friends to message you and ask for the code, which they say was meant for them.
They install WhatsApp and enter your phone number on their device. The hack works by tricking you into sharing the SMS message WhatsApp sends you when you activate your account on a new phone. And although an attacker taking over your account will not have access to your past message history, they will receive all messages sent to you while they control your account, and they will see your contacts in each of your groups and in any new messages received. Your biggest risk on WhatsApp is getting your account hijacked-this is an ongoing scourge that impacts a frightening number of people every week.
Unlike the new terms of service change, these also put your actual message content at risk. Much more importantly, there are two further settings that really do put your privacy at risk and which you should change. This would benefit anyone with work and home devices, or different phones for different countries.Do not autosave images to your phone WhatsApp/iOS WhatsApp is expected to go fully live with multi-device access soon, and code now in test suggests the next update will enable dedicated mobile apps for tablets, but there is speculation that WhatsApp might also enable multiple phones. But it’s still better than it was before, and, critically, much more secure.
For now, the only way to use multi-device access on an iPad is through web access, and that’s a painful process. WhatsApp needs to provide dedicated apps to make this work smoothly, especially on tablets. There is a major caveat with the beta, though. End-to-end encryption extends to these multiple, linked devices, ensuring that every connection is secured. With the new architecture, each linked device or endpoint has its own connection to WhatsApp, and so while your phone remains the primary device, it doesn’t need to be connected for other linked devices to work. MORE FROM FORBES WhatsApp Confirms Multi-Device Update For 2 Billion Users By Zak Doffman
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