A scammer has been trying to get people to download a fake WhatsApp update (this means it’s a trojan) that promises to provide you with a pink theme. It pretends to be an ‘official’ update, but it isn’t. The scam app is called WhatsApp Pink, and it is being spread around in WhatsApp groups. The…
Facebook purchased WhatsApp back in 2014, and they also bought Instagram prior to that in 2012. Both services are still wildly popular and have still been operating (mostly, at least) independent of Facebook, especially WhatsApp. According to The Independent, Facebook will integrate the underlying infrastructure of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger into a central messaging…
The popular WhatsApp instant messenger is now encrypted by default on Android, and it will be rolled out onto the other platforms shortly. This was implemented in partnership with Open Whisper Systems, a company that develops open-source security software. Encrypted instant messaging has been an option for many years via the use of messengers specially…