Accusing CIA of conducting mass surveillance, Wikileaks has created a hot environment by releasing a trove of documents. With this incident being the most surfaced issue nowadays, many concurrent controversies regarding mass surveillance and malicious attacks on sensitive data have been reported.
Crowd pleasing social websites, tech giants and the most powerful governments have also been vulnerable to these attacks. A couple of days ago, the report disclosed Whatsapp user being prone to data breach which could transfer all their personal data to a Hacker very easily using a malicious image. Similar was the case with the White House’s members preferred Confide app, found exposed to the hackers who could access through and could also imitate friendly contacts, amend the messages in transit and spy on contact details, as told by a cyber security firm.
However, for individuals and companies who compromised their personal information and sensitive data in similar attacks, it’s been a great distress and a matter of concern how to keep their data secure from such vulnerabilities.
