WhatsApp: Top five WhatsApp security tips to keep your account safe News Published: March 8, 2021 8:43 PM IST
WhatsApp is a widely popular cross-messaging platform among users. The Facebook-owned app not only allows you to send text, but you can record voice messages, video calls, send images and live location as well. While these are basic offerings, WhatsApp also provides certain tools and features that you can configure and take control of safety and privacy within the app. With cybersecurity attacks on rising, miscreants have aimed to exploit’s data via apps and devices by taking advantage of social networking tools. In case you haven’t tried to configure the safety features in your WhatsApp account, we have enlisted a few security tips to help you maintain the privacy. Also Read - Happy Bengali New Year 2021: How to create, send pohela boishakh WhatsApp stickers
that you give a phone number for two step authentication. these guys did a great job of encrypting user passwords. but with something that is as stigmatized as cheating, right, just the fact that you have an account there is something that could be shameful. thank you so much for joining us tonight. still ahead the issue that makes hillary clinton different from barack obama. i m mary thompson with your cnbc market wraps. stocks end down but off the low os of the day. the dow falls 162, the s&p shed 17 t nasdaq sinks 40. you do all this research on the perfect car.
been asking them to do for a long time is start a two step authentication. instead of just having a password you have a password and something else, usually a code sent to some sort of device so instead of just, if someone gets your password or gets you to enter it in a phishing scam you re not totally hosed because they still have to have the device where you get the code sent before they can log in somewhere new. what i was able to learn today is twitter which has been, you know, they posted a job opening about this a few months ago, has that in place and they are hoping to roll it out soon. might be a good occasion on which to get some attention for it. mat honan senior writer with wired magazine thanks for helping us. appreciate your time. recent twens now i ll talk like that for the west of the night. ready? recent trends have me wondering if serving as a u.s. senator has become a drag. a brand new data point to support the thesis, coming up
in our system but what do we know about how twitter is responding and their security practices? you say you ve called for that. people to be able to correct these things. what else could they do and what are they doing? one of the things people have been asking them to do for a long time is start a two step authentication. instead of just having a pass word you have a pass word and something else, usually a code sent to some sort of device so instead of just, if someone gets your pass word or gets you to enter it in a phishing scam you re not totally hosed because they still have to have the device where you get the code sent before they can log in somewhere new. what i was able to learn today is twitter which has been, you know, they posted a job opening about this a few months ago, has that in place and they are hoping to roll it out soon. might be a good occasion on which to get some attention for it. mat honan senior writer with wired magazine thanks for helping us. appreciat
involved more addresses and seeming corroboration of an initial report like this. it seems like this is a vulnerability in terms of at least the market s response to information like this that we don t quite have a handle on. is that fair? i think that s true. i think it is one of the reasons twitter has a pretty good ability to self-correct. you know, a lot of people weigh in and say especially if from one source that is wrong. i think it is one reason we need to be able to go back and correct our tweets now, a feature that i have called for and i ve seen other people call for that i d love to see. one thing people are going to be looking to here this is not something that seems specific to twitter in terms of the overall vulnerabilities as pointed out in our system but what do we know about how twitter is responding and their security practices? you say you ve called for that. people to be able to correct these things. what else could they do and what are they doing? one of the