Laughter goes through neighborhoods, as that one said. In this case we refer to Telegram, the messaging application that has reached mobile devices wielding greater security than many of its rivals in the market, especially WhatsApp. Well, it seems that this development has a security hole.
According to our colleagues from NetworksZone, the problem affects the privacy of the users, so we are not talking about a precisely "minor" problem, since this is a key aspect for many to decide to use one or another messaging application since its use is so much for the personal as well as professional sphere.
From what it seems, the failure affects the communication between server and client, since at the time of establishing communication between both it occurs an authentication vulnerability... so this can be ignored by a third party (since the legitimacy of the public keys used is not verified on the Telegram server). In this way, it could be possible to take control of the account, impersonate the identity and even access the records.
The fact is that the researchers who have detected the vulnerability, who have been working on it for some time - specifically on March 7 -, have already communicated the problem to Telegram (although it is now that what happens with the corresponding reports). The truth is that due to the importance of what happened, surely a solution about it, but it is true that the necessary precautions must be taken to avoid security problems.
Be that as it may, what happened is a Important problem for Telegram, since it affects one of the sections that it has used to differentiate itself from other similar developments: security. Waiting for what happens to be solved, of which we will keep you perfectly informed, it seems that Not only whatsapp It has some operating problems ... its rivals are not spared either, as has become clear.
Via: RedesZone Source: INTECO