White House Staff Messaging App Found Vulnerable
A private messaging app called Confide has been found severely flawed. Boasting military grade end-to-end encryption, the app was favored by White House Officials.
The app has since fixed these flaws, but it was learned that top Republicans and White House staffers were shielding communications using this app before flaws were fixed.
A hacker could hijack the app in use and pretend to be the account holder, change the contents of a message traveling to its recipient, gain access to someone’s Confide address book, have unlimited guesses at user passwords, or decrypt messages in transit.
Confide insists there is no detection of the security flaws being exploited prior to being patched.
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