infrastructure must have made
a tik tok account accessible for
the hackers to access a user’s
account.
One of the biggest security
concerns is that links are sent
through SMS and this is a well-
thought trick of cybercriminals
to access a user’s phone.
One such similar event had
taken place in the UK in
2014. Concertgoers received
spoofed messages as their
mother from the concert
promoter and UK’s Information
Commissioner charged him a
fine of more than $1,00,000.
Check Point made Tik Tok’s
parent company aware of this
and ever since the problem
was fixed. One of the lead
researchers from Check Point
named Oded Vanunu believes
that since this app has close to
1.5 billion global users in two
and a half years after it has
been launched outside China,
this is a great opportunity for
all the hackers to steal and
transfer private information
from user’s.
More than 300 million users
are from India and Check
point noted that there is a
functionality that lets users
send an SMS to themselves to
download the application. As of
now, there isn’t any information
on the number of users being
hacked, however, this has put
all the tik tok user’s at a risk.
The information on the bugs
was first sent to all the tik tok
teams.
What can hackers do?
User’s content can be
manipulated
An upload of
unauthorized videos can
happen
Private videos can be
made public
Personal information
can be extracted. For
example, email ID of the
user
Videos can easily be
deleted
Steps to minimize
this risk
Here are a few tips that can
help you minimize the risk.
Take a look!
Tip 1 - If you are a tik tok
user, don’t take it for granted
that your account might not
be compromised. Take it
seriously, log in and log out
from your account.
Tip 2 - It is essential to
keep updating the tik tok
app whenever you get a
notification.
Tik tok is been monitored
by one of the secretive
technology companies in the
world and this security is even
stronger when compared to
Facebook or Twitter.
JANUARY 2020 | WWW.WISHESH.NET