University study with video: Viber user data pretty much wholly unencrypted and easily accessible

If you are one of Viber’s few hundred million users, your Viber life is an open book, from messages, to pictures and video, to location data, the whole stream is unencrypted, and the server side appears to have no authentication either.



Moreover, the activity is stored on Viber’s servers, not deleted, and can be accessed without any credentials according to researchers at the University of New Haven’s Tagliatela College of Engineering, in Connecticut.



Researchers with the Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group were able to grab pictures, videos, even doodles sent through Viber. ...



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