Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, May 14th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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So this is absolutely wild.

What-AP discovered a flaw in its software for both iOS and Android that would allow hackers to install

NSO group surveillance software on phones via the app's call function. What's especially

wild is hackers only had to call you on whats-app to install the software.

The software would allow an attacker to read your

what's-app messages and possibly take over the camera and microphone as well,

although I'm seeing conflicting statements about that. You didn't even have to

answer the call to get infected and the calls often disappeared from call logs

What's app discovered the flaw

Fix their servers on Friday and issued an app patch yesterday.

If you have WhatsApp and use it regularly,

update it immediately because, yeah, this is a big deal.

But maybe not necessarily for you and I because who is NSO group quoting the BBC?

The NSO group is an Israeli company that has been referred to in the past as a cyber arms dealer.

While some cyber security companies report the flaws they find so they can be fixed, others

keep problems to themselves so they can be exploited or sold to law enforcement.

The NSO group is part owned by the London-based private equity firm Novalpina Capital, which acquired

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