Leak's Reveal Huge Updates Are Comming To WhatsApp

New reports indicate that WhatsApp is about to add some new features and revisions.These include support for larger emojis, public groups, mentions, and music sharing - according to the German tech site Macerkopf.

Music sharing will allow WhatsApp users to share local songs and songs on services such as Apple Music with friends and family. When sharing a track, a small music player will appear complete with album visuals for the song that is being shared, friends can then listen to the new song via the app.

The larger emojis feature look to follow the Apple's Messages app, which will support a similar feature in the upcoming release of iOS 10.

The new public groups feature allows users to join any public group chat through a link, and the group can be controlled by admins with the power to govern who is in the group.

Overall, the new update of WhatsApp would be a huge bang.

Now You Can Backup Whatsapp Messages To Google Drive

 

If you're one of the hundreds of millions of people in the world who use WhatsApp for your messages, you might want to save your message history from time to time. Now, you can automatically backup your whatsapp messages to Google Drive.

The new feature allows you to back up your messages to a Google Drive account that you specify automatically. Alternatively, the interval at which your messages backed up daily, weekly or monthly. This backup can even include all of the videos you've shared. You can backup to another device, or the same after a reset.

To backup the messages automatically do the Following steps

• Open WhatsApp.
• Go to Menu Button > Settings > Chats and calls > Chat backup.
• Tap on Back up to Google Drive and set up the backup frequency to your liking.
• You will be prompted to select a Google account that you will back up your chat history to. If you do not have a Google account, tap Add account when prompted. Please remember the Google account you are using for the backup.
• Tap on Back up over to choose the network you wish to use for backup. Please note that backing up over cellular may result in additional data charges.

To backupthe messages manually do the Following steps Open WhatsApp.

• Go to Menu Button > Settings > Chats and calls > Chat backup.
• Tap on Back up to Google Drive and select a backup frequency other than Never.
• Tap on Back Up to begin your Google Drive backup. This process may take a few minutes.

WhatsApp bug could affect millions of users

A bug in the popular messaging service WhatsApp put up to 200 million of its users at risk, security firm Check Point has warned.

The flaw allows hackers to distribute malware, including ransomware, which demands victims pay a fee to regain access to their files.

The vulnerability affects only the web-based version of the service.

WhatsApp was alerted to the problem at the end of last month and immediately issued a patch.

Check Point urged users to update their WhatsApp software immediately to take advantage of the fix.

Ransom-ware
The WhatsApp web app is a mirror version of its mobile app, enabling all messages, images and other content received on a smartphone to be accessed from a web browser.

There are currently over 200 million active users of the web app, according to statistics released by the firm this year. This compares to 900 million users of the smartphone app.

WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in February 2014.

According to Check Point, the vulnerability was caused by the way the service handles contacts sent in the vCard (virtual card) format.

All a hacker needed to do to send a virtual business card that looked legitimate was know their target's mobile number.

Once opened the vCard could distribute malicious code.

One expert said it was relatively easy for hackers to get hold of mobile numbers that have been disclosed via other breaches.

"Bearing in mind that WhatsApp is a cross-platform mobile messaging app, the chances of you opening a vCard sent to you is quite high," commented Mark James, a specialist at security firm ESET.

"Once opened it could attempt to download and infect your system with ransomware."

Check Point alerted WhatsApp about the problem on 21 August and a week later it issued a fix.

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