Sunday 8 September 2013

Whatsapp again actualizase to solve security problems

Users tend to use the instant messaging service WhatsApp Messenger have seen how throughout the day their phones have reported an update of the popular application. According to the changelog, the software upgrade will act on newly discovered bugs and security problems.

Within days Whatsapp has been updated in a couple of occasions. While the first was to introduce new features such as a new detailed view of the contacts, the second released today contain bug fixes from the first. One of the services most used IM reregister changes as major app stores that welcome in his catalog have reported a new version. In this case it is the version 2.7.7532 and it happens to that released a few days ago (2.7.7490). According to information provided by WhatsApp Inc., today's update focuses on solving unexpected closures of the application that users have reported. Also, without elaborating, have reported that the new software also addresses security issues.
Although not qualify, everything seems to indicate that this update could lightning is motivated by the recent implementation of the application WhatsAppSniffer , a software appeared on Google Play that could "scan" and talks collect other users connected to the same WiFi network. According to the creator of the application described as malicious (in hours since its emergence Google Google removed its reference Play, the Android app store), his work was to provide a tool of questionable ethics, but to show that it suffered from Whatsapp a serious security problem. In the absence of confirmation of this detail, after all we can consider as positive the work of the developer. Despite the improvements, we can not rule out a new update as soon as can be read on various websites, including the comments section of the App Store for Google, the released version has caused yet unquantified proportion of users have been unable to use the service.

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