Labels

Announcements
39
Customer Stories
24
Education
14
Events
325
Industry News
632
Micro Focus News
221
Other
119
User Group
15
Videos
59
Webinars
130
Related Tips & Info

Messenger apps: A security nightmare to haunt SecOps

JRoth
0 Likes
10 months ago

Many messaging apps do link previews insecurely. That’s the conclusion of a pair of well-known infosec researchers this week.

The worst are Facebook’s Messenger and Instagram, plus LINE. Shocking, I know. Also heavily criticized are Discord, LinkedIn, Slack, and Zoom—among others.

In some cases, link previews even break E2EE. Other services actually run untrusted JavaScript on their servers!

I know, right? In this week’s Security Blogwatch, we revert to semaphore and smoke signals.

Read the full article here.

Labels:

Industry News
Comment List
Anonymous
Related Discussions
Recommended

Resources

Support
Documentation
Training
Partner Portal
Contact us
Compliance
Help
Company
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Accessibility
Anti-Slavery Statement
Support
How To Buy
Careers
Investor Relations
The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of Micro Focus. By using this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Rules of Participation. Certain versions of content ("Material") accessible here may contain branding from Hewlett-Packard Company (now HP Inc.) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. As of September 1, 2017, the Material is now offered by Micro Focus, a separately owned and operated company. Any reference to the HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise/HPE marks is historical in nature, and the HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise/HPE marks are the property of their respective owners.