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Last week, Cyber
Experts Reported vulnerability in one of the most popular messaging
application of world Viber. They claimed that Viber's poor data security
practices threaten privacy of its more than 150 million active users.
Cross Platform Viber application is one of the most popular messaging application. It
allows registered users to send images, videos, doodles, GPS Locations etc.
along with each other and its most popular feature Voice Calling which is available
for Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone.
Viber stress user’s
Data in Amazon server in Encrypted form. But, It does not store images and
videos in Encrypted form that can be easily accessed without any authentication
and provide large security hole.
The main issue is that the above-mentioned data is unencrypted, leaving it open for interception through either a Rogue AP, or any man-in-the middle attacks. The researcher wrote in the blog post.
Critical data can easily accessed by and firewall or Network testing tool like Netwitness,
Wireshark etc. to capture traffic on network as shown in video.
“ It is important to let the people know of these
vulnerabilities, therefore, we chose to publish these results and the video in
this post.“
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