Facebook says Bezos hack highlights smartphone vulnerabilities

[Bradley Prior]

Facebook says Bezos hack highlights smartphone vulnerabilities

The hack of Amazon.com Inc. billionaire Jeff Bezos’s phone, allegedly via a WhatsApp message, brings to light potential security weaknesses in smartphone operating systems, Facebook Inc. vice president Nicola Mendelsohn said.

“One of the things that it highlights is actually some of the potential underlying vulnerabilities that exist on the actual operating systems on phones,” Mendelsohn said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Francine Lacqua at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. [Bloomberg]

 

[Bryn]

Facebook should just cease all public commentary. They don't even pretend to give a s**t about right and wrong anymore.

 

[R4ziel]

Should have recommended him to use Telegram instead, that way no one would have been able to send him the message because no one uses Telegram

 

[backstreetboy]

Bezos’s iPhone

'Nuff said. A properly locked down Android smartphone won't have the same problem.

 

[Pitbull]

'Nuff said. A properly locked down Android smartphone won't have the same problem.

You're kidding right?

 

[Ninja'd]

'Nuff said. A properly locked down Android smartphone won't have the same problem.

 

[mister]

I'm more interested in why Bezos has been chatting to Bin Salman...

 

[Ninja'd]

I'm more interested in why Bezos has been chatting to Bin Salman...

Part of Illuminati, Bilderberg, Majestic12, SPECTRE etc. Take your pick.

 

[Azg]

'Nuff said. A properly locked down Android smartphone won't have the same problem.

Well, he has since switched to a Note 10, so he must have learnt his lesson good and proper.

 

[FirefoxRoux]

Why is this even news? A Neocon being hacked by a prince. It's quite hilarious. Just shows WhatsApp etc isn't as secure as they want you to believe.

 

[Jan]

Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) casting aspersions on Apple. Well played.

 

[R13...]

Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) casting aspersions on Apple. Well played.

Weird given they depend on both Apple and Android to propagate their messaging platform and their other products.

 

[Jan]

Weird given they depend on both Apple and Android to propagate their messaging platform and their other products.

Not that weird if you want to distract from the fact that a vulnerability in your app was being used for foreign espionage.