{"id":983697,"date":"2026-01-06T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983697"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:26:15","slug":"8-whatsapp-features-you-must-use-to-keep-your-account-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/8-whatsapp-features-you-must-use-to-keep-your-account-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"8 WhatsApp features you must use to keep your account secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people rely on WhatsApp to stay connected, but the app\u2019s popularity also makes it a target for hackers and scammers. Recent reports have exposed new security threats, including a tactic called GhostPairing, which tricks users into linking their accounts to an attacker\u2019s browser. Researchers have also shown how billions of phone numbers can be exposed through the app\u2019s contact discovery tool, along with profile photos and other personal data.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption to ensure that only you and the person you\u2019re messaging can read your chats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people rely on WhatsApp to stay connected, but the app\u2019s popularity also makes it a target for hackers and scammers. Recent reports have exposed new security threats, including a tactic called GhostPairing, which tricks users into linking their accounts to an attacker\u2019s browser. Researchers have also shown how billions of phone numbers can be exposed through the app\u2019s contact discovery tool, along with profile photos and other personal data. WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption to ensure that only you and the person you\u2019re messaging can read your chats.<\/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":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983697","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=983697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}