{"id":207311,"date":"2020-01-09T04:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/tiktok_patched_a_security_flaw_that_could_let_hackers_access_your_videos-news-40935.php"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:48:01","slug":"tiktok-patched-a-security-flaw-that-could-let-hackers-access-your-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/09\/tiktok-patched-a-security-flaw-that-could-let-hackers-access-your-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok patched a security flaw that could let hackers access your videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/19\/11\/tiktok-1-5-billion-downloads\/-184x111\/gsmarena_001.jpg?resize=184%2C111&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"184\" height=\"111\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" align=left style=\"background:#333333;padding:0px;margin:0px 4px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#aaaaaa;border-width:1px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>TikTok has been under a lot of scrutiny lately and even the US government has banned the use of the app on government-owned smartphones in the army. And this time around, the US government might be right to be concerned.<\/p>\n<p>A security firm named Check Point has found a serious vulnerability in TikTok allowing attackers to access the videos along with pretty much everything on the victim&#8217;s profile. It was possible to send a spoofed text message from TikTok and once the user clicks on the fake link it would allow the attacker to partially take control of the user&#8217;s profile.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> TikTok has been under a lot of scrutiny lately and even the US government has banned the use of the app on government-owned smartphones in the army. And this time around, the US government might be right to be concerned.<\/p>\n<p>A security firm named C&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/09\/tiktok-patched-a-security-flaw-that-could-let-hackers-access-your-videos\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,453,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,11,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,457,454],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-RVJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207314,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311\/revisions\/207314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}