{"id":1006907,"date":"2026-05-05T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006907"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:39:22","slug":"whatsapp-users-alert-two-whatsapp-vulnerabilities-disclosed-what-it-means-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/whatsapp-users-alert-two-whatsapp-vulnerabilities-disclosed-what-it-means-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp users alert: Two WhatsApp vulnerabilities disclosed, what it means for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has flagged a couple of security weak spots in WhatsApp, reminding us all that even the most polished apps aren\u2019t bulletproof. These glitches were caught through their bug bounty program\u2014essentially a \u201cfind the flaw\u201d contest for ethical hackers\u2014and the good news is that they have already been patched. While there\u2019s no sign that any hackers actually used these holes to snoop on people, it\u2019s a pretty clear wake-up call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has flagged a couple of security weak spots in WhatsApp, reminding us all that even the most polished apps aren\u2019t bulletproof. These glitches were caught through their bug bounty program\u2014essentially a \u201cfind the flaw\u201d contest for ethical hackers\u2014and the good news is that they have already been patched. While there\u2019s no sign that any hackers actually used these holes to snoop on people, it\u2019s a pretty clear wake-up call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}