{"id":2020,"date":"2019-05-17T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2019-05-17T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:45:50","slug":"widespread-media-coverage-for-dr-budi-arief-on-whatsapp-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/05\/17\/widespread-media-coverage-for-dr-budi-arief-on-whatsapp-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread media coverage for Dr Budi Arief on WhatsApp flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/ba284\/\">Dr Arief<\/a>, from the School of Computing, has been cited in over 250 publications including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7026177\/WhatsApp-rolls-security-fix-amid-spyware-fears.html\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/whatsapp-users-urged-to-update-app-after-malicious-spyware-attack-1-4927141\"><em>The<\/em> <em>Scotsman<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/wires\/pa\/article-7026827\/WhatsApp-users-urged-update-app-following-spyware-vulnerability.html\"><em>This is Money<\/em><\/a> since providing a comment about a major security flaw discovered in the popular messaging service WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>His comment on the issue was as follows:\u00a0<em>\u2018It demonstrates the importance of keeping your software update. I\u2019m not particularly surprised by this development, this happens all the time. This recent vulnerability bears a resemblance to the Apple FaceTime vulnerability discovered earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u2018At this stage, it is too early to say whether there is any connection between the WhatsApp vulnerability and the FaceTime vulnerability.\u00a0Software is a very complex system \u2013 it\u2019s practically impossible to guarantee it is completely bug-free, there are always potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a result of this widespread coverage Dr Arief was invited to appear on TalkRadio on 15 May as an expert to discuss the issue and other key security trends in the technology market<\/p>\n<p>Dr Arief is one of many academics across the University to provide <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/tags\/comment\">expert comments to the media<\/a>, issued by the press team within the Corporate Communications department, which can help build the profiles of academics, their school and the University.<\/p>\n<p>Colleagues who would like to learn more about how to contribute their expertise\u00a0 should contact the Press Office on\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:pressoffice@kent.ac.uk\">pressoffice@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Arief, from the School of Computing, has been cited in over 250 publications including The Daily Mail, The Scotsman and This is Money since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/05\/17\/widespread-media-coverage-for-dr-budi-arief-on-whatsapp-flaw\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,57908,122],"tags":[150006,37339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}