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| Source |  CodingSec |
|---|---|
| Identifiant | 5010 |
| Date de publication | 2016-07-30 18:16:43 (vue: 2016-07-30 18:16:43) |
| Titre | WhatsApp Fails to Properly Delete Your Chats |
| Texte | One of the biggest social messaging service, WhatsApp fails to properly delete conversations of its users, thus allowing attackers and law enforcement a few avenues to recover those deleted chats, found iOS developer Jonathan Zdziarski. The main issue here is the SQLite database, which many other applications like WhatsApp and many other more mobile apps use to store data on the users phone on which the app is installed. Jonathan discovered that, whenever a user deletes his WhatsApp conversation, SQLite’s general mode of operation is to mark the data as ‘deleted’ and add it to “free list” of the database entries that can be re-written by |
| Envoyé | Oui |
| Condensat | “free add allowing and law app appeared applications apps use attackers avenues biggest can chats coding conversation conversations data database delete deleted deletes developer discovered enforcement entries fails first found general mode here his whatsapp installed ios is its jonathan jonathan like list” main issue many mark messaging mobile more one operation other phone on post properly recover security service social sqlite sqlite’s store those thus user users whatsapp whenever which written your zdziarski |
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