More Than 300 Million Messages Chat Applications Exposed in China
More than 300 million private messages from a chat application popular in China, exposed to the internet on Saturday (2/3/2019). This information revealed from the security analyst Victor Gevers.
According to The Financial Times on Tuesday (5/3/2019), there were approximately 364 million messages--including a user's personal identity which can be searched via the IP address.
Each contains the content of the conversations from popular chat applications such as WeChat and QQ.
In fact, the database that contains the message can submit such information to the 17 other server types that cannot be revealed his identity.
Gevers, the data is conjectural already distributed to law enforcement authorities such as the police in the cities of China to identify who the culprit is.
"So far there has been no evidence of related law enforcement authorities who leaked hundreds of millions of these messages, " said Gevers.
Gevers adds, most messages come from among teenage users.
Some of the content of the messages also reveal the addresses sent from the device in a cybercafe (internet cafes).
Gevers first learned of the leak this data via a search engine called Shodan.
Through this search engine, users can search for content via connected internet device.
According to him, there is someone scrambles the firewall configuration and exposing the message database.
Actually, it's a regular thing for the Chinese Government to monitor conversations of internet users.
A number of technology companies of China even did a collection of user data from applications from the web site.
Take the example of WeChat, which in the regulations of the privacy of its users claim to be collecting user data for the purposes of the company.
But unfortunately, it led to criticism of the public because WeChat is supposed to have privacy without consent of the user.
Drone seem not so foreign goods in an age of rapid technological advances.
It functions even extends to the various sectors. Take the example of China. Implementation of the drones are now even been harnessed to sector oversight.
The latest, the Government of China has just created a drone with a unique form, i.e., resembling a bird.
According to information reported South China Morning Post on Tuesday (26/6/2018), the drone of the birds turned out to be already in use by 30 Chinese military and Government agencies over the last few years.
The presence of the drone thus reap the negative responses because the risk could threaten the privacy community.
As for drone duty to watch over the movements of bird communities in the five provinces that are in the bamboo curtain country.
Drone Dove it is a Government project that is named "Dove ".
The project is led by Song Bifeng, a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China.
The song itself is a senior scientist behind the Chengdu J-20 jet aircraft, i.e. ' stealth ' fifth generation that exists in Asia
According to The Financial Times on Tuesday (5/3/2019), there were approximately 364 million messages--including a user's personal identity which can be searched via the IP address.
Each contains the content of the conversations from popular chat applications such as WeChat and QQ.
More Than 300 Million Messages Chat Applications Exposed in China
It gets worse again, the recording also contained personal data on users, such as the number of residence, photograph, address, GPS location data, and also the information of the types of devices used.
In fact, the database that contains the message can submit such information to the 17 other server types that cannot be revealed his identity.
Gevers, the data is conjectural already distributed to law enforcement authorities such as the police in the cities of China to identify who the culprit is.
"So far there has been no evidence of related law enforcement authorities who leaked hundreds of millions of these messages, " said Gevers.
Gevers adds, most messages come from among teenage users.
Some of the content of the messages also reveal the addresses sent from the device in a cybercafe (internet cafes).
The Origin Of The Leak Message
Gevers first learned of the leak this data via a search engine called Shodan.
Through this search engine, users can search for content via connected internet device.
According to him, there is someone scrambles the firewall configuration and exposing the message database.
Actually, it's a regular thing for the Chinese Government to monitor conversations of internet users.
A number of technology companies of China even did a collection of user data from applications from the web site.
Take the example of WeChat, which in the regulations of the privacy of its users claim to be collecting user data for the purposes of the company.
But unfortunately, it led to criticism of the public because WeChat is supposed to have privacy without consent of the user.
Chinese Society, Unfettered Privacy Now Overseen Drone Bird
Drone seem not so foreign goods in an age of rapid technological advances.
It functions even extends to the various sectors. Take the example of China. Implementation of the drones are now even been harnessed to sector oversight.
The latest, the Government of China has just created a drone with a unique form, i.e., resembling a bird.
According to information reported South China Morning Post on Tuesday (26/6/2018), the drone of the birds turned out to be already in use by 30 Chinese military and Government agencies over the last few years.
The presence of the drone thus reap the negative responses because the risk could threaten the privacy community.
As for drone duty to watch over the movements of bird communities in the five provinces that are in the bamboo curtain country.
Drone Dove it is a Government project that is named "Dove ".
The project is led by Song Bifeng, a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China.
The song itself is a senior scientist behind the Chengdu J-20 jet aircraft, i.e. ' stealth ' fifth generation that exists in Asia
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