{"id":47786,"date":"2013-04-26T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=47786"},"modified":"2013-04-26T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:39:56","slug":"viber-app-flaw-allows-access-to-phone-without-password-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/viber-app-flaw-allows-access-to-phone-without-password-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Viber app flaw allows access to phone without password (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something serious. If you have Viber app, there is a great potential that someone who can send message via Viber to you, will be able to access your locked phone quite easily.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47787\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/viber-app-flaw-allows-access-to-phone-without-password-video\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?fit=620%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"viber-android-exploit-1366899487\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?fit=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?fit=620%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47787\" alt=\"viber-android-exploit-1366899487\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?resize=600%2C330\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This flaw was discovered by Bkav Internet Security and they have made a video to prove it. Watch this now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tb4y_1cz8WY\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the flaw appears to be the Pop Up notification. According to the source, Viber had been informed and a patch has been promised without a delivery date. For now, to avoid such situation, you can disable the Pop Up notification for Viber.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47789\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/viber-app-flaw-allows-access-to-phone-without-password-video\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw.jpg?fit=375%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"375,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"viber-app-pop-up-flaw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw.jpg?fit=187%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw.jpg?fit=375%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47789\" alt=\"viber-app-pop-up-flaw\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw.jpg?resize=375%2C600\" width=\"375\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-app-pop-up-flaw.jpg?resize=187%2C300&amp;ssl=1 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/04\/25\/viber-exploit-lets-attackers-bypass-android-lock-screens\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something serious. If you have Viber app, there is a great potential that someone who can send message via Viber to you, will be able to access your..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5,6,14],"tags":[803,37,2051,2986,1804,10443,2069,3973],"class_list":["post-47786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information","category-mobile","category-pda","category-techie","tag-access","tag-android","tag-app","tag-flaw","tag-password","tag-pop-up","tag-popup","tag-viber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/viber-android-exploit-1366899487.jpg?fit=620%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-cqK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47791,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47786\/revisions\/47791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}