WhatsApp vulnerability goes viral worldwide

April 23, 2014

Our identified location security bug/vulnerability has gone viral world wide. Below are some of the articles in different languages written about our discovery:

English

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/19/dont-share-your-location-with-your-friends-on-whatsapp/

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/whatsapp-flaw-leaves-users-open-to-spying/article/343647/

http://thehackernews.com/2014/04/whatsapp-flaw-leaves-user-location.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29#

Arabic

http://www.itp.net/arabic/597706-/?tab=article#.U0_veuZdW1I

http://www.sauress.com/alyaum/133683

http://www.alyaum.com/News/art/133683.html

Spanish

http://connecta.la/vulnerabilidad-en-whatsapp-permite-interceptar-la-posicion-del-usuario/

http://www.tecnoxplora.com/apps/whatsapp-confirma-otro-fallo-seguridad-donde-vives-donde-trabajas_2014042100094.html

German

http://www.gulli.com/news/23711-standort-von-whatsapp-nutzern-kann-in-lokalen-netzwerken-mitgeschnitten-werden-2014-04-16

Portugese

http://exame.abril.com.br/tecnologia/noticias/falha-no-whatsapp-indica-onde-local-onde-usuario-esta

http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2014/04/whatsapp-tem-falha-de-seguranca-que-mostra-localizacao-do-usuario-diz-site.html

Serbian

http://www.informacija.rs/Mobilni-telefoni/Otkriven-bag-u-WhatsApp-koji-otkriva-lokaciju-korisnika.html

Russian

http://internetua.com/WhatsApp-pozvolyaet-raskrit-mestopolojenie-polzovatelya

http://nbwnews.ru/

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