WhatsApp Vulnerability: Do you have a WhatsApp account? If yes, then you should beware, as recently a vulnerability is found which could perhaps risk your privacy by exposing sensitive information of your way of working.
According to a computer science software specialist, Robert Heaton, with the help of a vulnerability in WhatsApp Web, the desktop version of the program, anyone can easily identify the everyday activity of users like when they sleep or wakes up, and even the person with whom the user is talking. He investigated that any Whatsapp user can easily identify other users chatting details.
Heaton also claimed that anyone could misuse the vulnerability and obtain sensitive information regarding other WhatsApp victim while they are using PC. The limitation is that the bug remains in the tool “last hour of connection” which seems at above the chat window beside the title of the contact in question. It shows that data gets restored while the alterations are noted in an internal record of the application and simply obtain that through the list for makers of the browser.
With the benefit of information, Robert Heaton created a simple extension for Google Chrome based on JavaScript of just four strings of code, it enables managing the usage of the application of every contact, obtaining the said file in each ten-second interval. So, it could be likely to receive the guides of control of victims and also gain victim’s sleeping periods. It is possible only if we begin from the center that WhatsApp is habitually the ultimate app which we use every day and the earliest we notice after waking up.
Identifying your sleeping period is not that severe. Though, the same information from other users could be used to recognize if two contacts of the equivalent “circle” are chatting at a particular moment just by traversing both the data information. Heaton shows that anyone simply needs to form a pattern which correlates the user’s recent link to the contacts, to determine that the victim is probably chatting when the link occurrences are concurrent on various happenings. Inevitably, while conducting this spying, the two users to be observed should be in the contact list.
Sadly, it is the usual activity of the application, and not a failure, although it is doubtful that Facebook determines to solve the issue. Furthermore, various messaging apps available which include a late-connection logging operation similar to WhatsApp, this weakness could extend in others such as Messenger or Telegram.
Terry Ts 
Rudhra Nandu