For many of us, WhatsApp is central to our lives. This is where we can get in touch not only with our friends, but also with our family and even with our work. Lately we can even use it to buy a mobile through WhatsApp.
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In short, the last thing we want is for someone to be able to access our account and our messages, and although there are good practices that we should always follow, it is possible to fall victim to a sophisticated attack.
WhatsApp account protection
For all this, WhatsApp today announced new measures to protect user accounts, new layers that will make it more difficult for accounts and messages to be stolen. However, it is necessary to take into account its particularities, it is not that we will have a bad surprise.
To begin with, from now on WhatsApp will make it more difficult to transfer our account to a new device; for example, if we have changed mobile. If we try to log into WhatsApp on another device, a new pop-up will now appear on the old device, which we will have to accept before we can use the new one. This means that if we do not have our old mobile, we will not be able to connect to the new one; however, we can always contact WhatsApp technical service if we cannot access our old mobile for some reason.
The new WhatsApp account protection
Therefore, if you are going to change your mobile, it is very important that you do not get rid of the old one, at least until you have finished setting up your WhatsApp account. The good thing is that from now on, if someone tries to steal our account, we can simply deny it by clicking on “Do not allow” in the pop-up window, which will show us information about the mobile that is trying to login to our account.
For the second novelty, we won’t have to do anything. This is the hardware check, which determines that a device is safe to use WhatsApp and does not have malware installed to steal our account. It is based on the use of a security key stored in the memory of the device, so the user does not have to do anything.
Finally, WhatsApp stands out from other instant messaging applications by using end-to-end encryption, which prevents other people from reading our messages. This is based on the creation of unique security codes that we can see if we click on the name and the “Encryption” section in a chat. New in this sense is a “key transparency” process, which will allow us to verify that the connection is secure and encrypted; In this section, an option will appear to verify the connection.
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