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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jhala, Kritarth Y. Patel, Darsh |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | The domination of social networking applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber continues to grow exponentially with WhatsApp being the undisputed leader amongst a vast series of social networking and chat messengers with more than 600 million users worldwide and being the number one paid application in more than 131 countries. Arguably privacy is a key draw for social media such as facebook, viber, whatsapp users when it comes to any mobile chat option and as a leader on the market WhatsApp has found itself in some hot water after researchers called out a potential security vulnerability. Generally WhatsApp is a very popular messenger for smart devices only. This paper demonstrates how to capture the password of targate device WhatsApp account using the different gateway level proxies like SSL/TLS proxy, MITM proxy. Once attacker received this password attacker can use it to communicate to the WhatsApp main servers directly or via a local framework. |
| Starting Page | 110 |
| Ending Page | 113 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijsrd.com/articles/IJSRDV3I1055.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
