NEW
DELHI: The free text messaging app on your phone can be used to steal
your personal information. Sounding this warning, hackers and cyber
security professionals have claimed that internet companies can access a
mobile user's chat logs and phone data, including location, contacts,
mail and much more, through some of these free texting apps.
To prove their point, a team of young hackers demonstrated on Sunday how text messages sent through a Chinese free texting app can be decrypted. They said foreign governments could also be using this method to access data for surveillance or spying.
The vulnerability of free messaging users was one of several privacy issues that hacking enthusiasts discussed at The Hackers Conference in the capital on Sunday.
'Govt fails to tap potential of hackers despite web attacks'
Participants at The Hackers Conference in Delhi on Sunday said the government wasn't utilizing the potential of hackers despite its websites increasingly coming under attack.
To prove their point, a team of young hackers demonstrated on Sunday how text messages sent through a Chinese free texting app can be decrypted. They said foreign governments could also be using this method to access data for surveillance or spying.
The vulnerability of free messaging users was one of several privacy issues that hacking enthusiasts discussed at The Hackers Conference in the capital on Sunday.
'Govt fails to tap potential of hackers despite web attacks'
Participants at The Hackers Conference in Delhi on Sunday said the government wasn't utilizing the potential of hackers despite its websites increasingly coming under attack.