{"id":959339,"date":"2025-09-04T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959339"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:36:02","slug":"govt-issues-warning-on-whatsapp-and-urges-users-to-update-apps-for-data-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/04\/govt-issues-warning-on-whatsapp-and-urges-users-to-update-apps-for-data-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt issues warning on WhatsApp and urges users to update apps for data safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-risk security advisory for WhatsApp users. The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow attackers to bypass authorisation measures and gain access to sensitive user data. The warning covers both iOS and macOS versions of the widely used messaging platform.<\/p>\n<p>Flaw in linked device handling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-risk security advisory for WhatsApp users. The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow attackers to bypass authorisation measures and gain access to sensitive user data. The warning covers both iOS and macOS versions of the widely used messaging platform. Flaw in linked device handling<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959339","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=959339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}