For many of us, WhatsApp is the center of our lives. It is the place where we can connect not only with our friends, but also with our family and even with our work. Recently we can even use it to buy a mobile phone through WhatsApp.
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In short, the last thing we want is for someone to gain access to our account and messages, and while there are good practices we should always follow, it is possible for us to fall victim to a sophisticated attack.
WhatsApp account protection
For all this, WhatsApp today announced new measures aimed at protecting user accounts, and new layers that will make it more difficult for accounts and messages to be stolen. However, we must take into account its peculiarities, then we will not have a bad surprise.
First of all, from now on, WhatsApp will make it difficult to transfer our account to a new device; For example, if we change the mobile phone. If we try to log into WhatsApp on another device, a new popup will now appear on the old device, which we will have to accept before we can use the new device. This means that if we don’t have our old mobile phone, we won’t be able to log into the new one; However, we can always contact the WhatsApp technical service if we cannot access our old mobile phone for any reason.
Protect your new WhatsApp account
Therefore, if you are going to change your mobile phone, it is very important that you do not throw away the old one, at least until you have finished configuring your WhatsApp account. The good thing is that, from now on, if someone tries to steal our account, we can simply refuse it by clicking “don’t allow” in the pop-up, which will show us information about the mobile phone that is trying to connect to our account.
For the second novelty, we won’t have to do anything. It is about hardware verification, which determines that the device is safe to use WhatsApp and that it does not have malware installed to steal our account. It is based on the use of the security key stored in the device’s memory, so that the user does not have to do anything.
Finally, WhatsApp stands out from other instant messaging apps due to the use of end-to-end encryption, which prevents other people from reading our messages. This is based on generating unique security codes that we can see if we click on the name and the “Encryption” section of the chat. The novelty in this sense is the “Main Transparency” operation, which will allow us to verify that the connection is secure and encrypted; In this section an option to check the connection will appear.
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