Indian -origin cyber security expert Ataullah Baig has filed a case against Meta. Beg was the cyber security head of WhatsApp owned by Meta from 2021 to 2025. They allege that there are many such flaws related to cyber security in the system of Whatsapp, which can cause users’ data compromise. He says that when he informed this security flaw to the higher officials including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, his point was ignored. At the same time, the company took action on them and fired him.

What are the allegations made in the trial?

It is said in the trial that about 1,500 engineers of Mata have direct access to WhatsApp user data and no monitoring is being kept on it. WhatsApp developers can steal the contact information, IPedres and profile photos of users from this data. In this case filed in the Northern District of California, Baig said that after starting work in WhatsApp, he came to know about these security flaws. These flaws are violating the legal responsibilities of Meta along with federal laws. Even after complaining, no effort was made by the company to stop this. Beg said that three days after his complaint, he started getting negative feedback regarding work.

What has Meta said about this?

Meta has denied them by reacting to Baig’s allegations. A company spokesman said that it has become a pattern, in which the employees fired from the job on the basis of poor performance go among the people with incomplete claims. The spokesman said that the company is proud that it has a strong record about protecting people’s privacy.

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There is a flood of scam on the Internet and mobile these days. Scammers are making people their prey in different ways. Recently information about a new scam has been revealed. In this, scammers are sending wedding cards to people through WhatsApp. As soon as someone clicks on these wedding cards, money is blown away from his account. Actually, in these wedding cards, scammers send APK files on the phone of people, which gather their necessary information.

Case revealed from Maharashtra

In Hingoli district of Maharashtra, a wedding card came in a message from an unknown number on WhatsApp of a government employee. It was written in its caption, ‘Welcome, definitely come to the wedding.’ As soon as the employee clicked on it, he flew 1.90 lakh rupees from his account shortly. Actually, it was an APK file rather than a wedding card. With the help of this, the scammers stole his necessary information and data, with the help of which he succeeded in making a dent in his bank account. The victim has given a complaint to the police regarding this matter.

How to protect yourself from such scam

This was not the first such case. Last year also a case came to light, in which scammers had cheated by sending malware as a wedding card. Now once again such incidents are increasing. Therefore, by taking care of some important things, yourself can be kept safe.

Do not open unknown numbers or messages from the person on social media or mail.
If a message looks suspicious, always call the sender and verify it.
Do not give your personal information to any suspect or unknown person on social media.
If a suspect or unknown person is sending you a message, then block it and inform the investigating agencies.

Whatsapp Privacy Features: In today’s digital era, Whatsapp has become an important part of our personal life, not just chatting app. In such a situation, it is very important to take care of your privacy. There have been many such features in Whatsapp that you can make your chats even more safe. Let’s know 5 special privacy settings, which you should activate immediately.

On advance chat privacy

With this feature, you can make a particular chat extra secure. After turning on it, the media cannot be downloaded from that chat nor can chat can be exported. Open the chat to activate it, tap the name on the top and choose “Advanced Chat Privacy”.

End-to-end encrypted to backup

Whatsapp allows you to get backup encryption for this, for saving chats in your cloud. With this, neither Whatsapp nor Google or Apple can read your chats. Go to turn it on. Settings> Chats> Chat Backup> End-to-Ed Encrypted Backup> Turn on.

Take permission to add to the group

Now no one will be able to add you to the group without asking. You can decide who can add you to groups – all, only your contacts or some chosen people. For this: Settings> Privacy> Groups and choose your choice.

Call from unknown number? Now the ring will not call

Calls coming from unknown number from this setting will become automatically silent. She will be seen in the call log but your phone will not ring nor vibrate. Go to turn on: Settings> Privacy> Calls> Silence Unknown Callers.

Use ‘View Once’ feature

If you want to show a photo or video just once, then use this feature. The media will disappear after seeing once and will not be forward. To use it, while sending the media, press the icon with “1” and then send it.

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