Grayson comments on WhatsApp security issues

"What's significant about the research is it shows an oversight in how to leverage encryption technology to protect data," Grayson Milbourne, security intelligence director at Webroot, a maker of antivirus software, told TechNewsWorld.
 
"I expect very quickly we'll see an update from WhatsApp that will address this problem," he said. "It should generate a key for each device, which is the proper way to make the data unreadable."
 
"The takeaway is you really have to apply security technology properly when you're dealing with private data, especially with SMS," he added. "That's a sweet hotspot for very private data. To compromise that has very large implications."
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