{"id":921468,"date":"2025-04-11T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921468"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:26:35","slug":"government-has-a-warning-for-these-whatsapp-users-what-is-it-and-how-you-can-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/11\/government-has-a-warning-for-these-whatsapp-users-what-is-it-and-how-you-can-stay-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government has a warning for these WhatsApp users: What is it and how you can stay safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-severity alert regarding a security vulnerability in the WhatsApp Desktop application for Windows. The flaw, identified in versions earlier than 2.2450.6, poses significant risks, including unauthorised access, data theft, and malicious code execution.<\/p>\n<p>CERT-In warning for WhatsApp users<\/p>\n<p>According to CERT-In, the issue arises from a misconfiguration between the MIME type and file extension handling for attachments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-severity alert regarding a security vulnerability in the WhatsApp Desktop application for Windows. The flaw, identified in versions earlier than 2.2450.6, poses significant risks, including unauthorised access, data theft, and malicious code execution. CERT-In warning for WhatsApp users According to CERT-In, the issue arises from a misconfiguration between the MIME type and file extension handling for attachments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921468","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}