Make it TikTok security, at data risk

A flaw in TikTok, the Chinese chat popular with young people, jeopardizes the security of personal data and the privacy of videos. To find out, the security researchers of Check Point Research, the same who a few weeks ago reported a flaw in WhatsApp, then corrected. Again the vulnerability has been reported to TikTok and has been corrected, you need to update the app to protect yourself. Hackers can potentially upload unauthorized videos and delete others; they can change the privacy status of a user's videos, from private to public; they can extract sensitive personal data, such as name and surname, e-mail address and date of birth. These operations can be done through TikTok's messaging infrastructure, "injecting and executing malicious code", or "redirecting the victim to a malicious website in the guise of tiktok.com". Check Point Research reported these vulnerabilities ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, in late November, "and a solution was implemented responsibly within a month to ensure that users can continue to use the application properly. sure".
TikTok, to date, according to the estimates of the analysis company SensorTower has been downloaded over 1.5 billion times, is the third most downloaded app behind WhatsApp and Messenger and in front of Facebook and Instagram. It is also available in over 150 markets and used in over 75 languages. A few days ago the US military banned its use as "cyber threat". (HANDLE).