WhatsApp patches bug. Twitter updates its features to promote “social privacy.” Labor Day …

At a glance.WhatsApp patches bug.Twitter updates its features to promote “social privacy.”Labor Day threats to data privacy.WhatsApp bug discovered hiding in image filters.WhatsApp is in the news again, this time for a (now-patched) vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to read a user’s private data. Exploitation of the bug would require both the user and the attacker to jump through a complex series of hoops, but experts at Check Point Research say that given the global messaging platform’s massive reach, the presence of the issue at all is worth noting. The attack hinges on the way WhatsApp filters and transmits images. Because filtering requires modification of the picture’s pixels, a hack could be triggered by the attacker sending the target a malicious image. When contacted about the glitch, WhatsApp responded, “This report involves multiple steps a user would have needed to take and we have no reason to believe users would have been impacted by this bug. That said, even the most complex scenarios researchers identify can help increase security for users.” WhatsApp version 2.21.1.13 includes a patch, complete with image checks to further safeguard against exploitation of the glitch.New Twitter features promote social privacy.In an attempt to make…
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