{"id":7883,"date":"2017-03-15T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/whatsapp-telegram-patch-account-hijacking-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:15:24","slug":"whatsapp-telegram-patch-account-hijacking-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/whatsapp-telegram-patch-account-hijacking-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp, Telegram Patch Account Hijacking Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A vulnerability found in the web versions of WhatsApp and Telegram could have been exploited to hijack accounts by sending the targeted user a malicious HTML file disguised as an image or a video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flaw was discovered by researchers at Check Point earlier this month and it was quickly patched by both Telegram and WhatsApp on the server side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/whatsapp-telegram-patch-account-hijacking-vulnerability\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability found in the web versions of WhatsApp and Telegram could have been exploited to hijack accounts by sending the targeted user a malicious HTML file disguised as an image or a video.<br \/>\nThe flaw was discovered by researchers at Check Point earlier this month and it was quickly patched by both Telegram and WhatsApp on the server side.<br \/>\nread more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}