Security is a problem that affects us all and in recent years we have seen how messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram enhanced all their point -to -point encryption options.Everything, with the sole objective that no one can put their nose in our conversations.

That, which is something that we all trust, ends up becoming a reality when security companies take discomfort to verify that this is so.And Simantec, known for developing antivirus for decades, has finished a study where it points to us what are the critical points in which our data is serious danger.

Inside and outside WhatsApp and Telegram

Basically the report says that while they circulate on the servers of the company apps from messaging apps our photos and videos are safe.However, these are no longer when they are stored on our phone.Obviously, so that WhatsApp or Telegram can be used without problems with the OS and other apps, they must use the smartphone file system (iOS or Android).And that is where the problem is.

The images and videos that reach the messaging apps can end up in the photo gallery of the phone and that is where the hackers could attack to gossip what comes to us, or modify what we are going to send.Even in that report we talk that cybercriminals could take a newly received image and modify it before we read it.

How can we avoid part of these problems?Well, deactivating the option that allows the photos and videos to be sent to us in the smartphone gallery.But we say in part because those we can send, that we also take them a reel, are equally exposed as those that end there from WhatsApp and Telegram.

In short, while the photos and videos come and go through the WhatsApp and Telegram chats their safety is guaranteed thanks to the point -to -point encryption.But either before sending them, or after receiving them, all threats loom over the file system of the terminal OS.And here, all we can do is remember, in the case of Android, a basic rule: not install software from unknown sources.

When in doubt, both in iOS and Android, it is advisable.Thus, we will mitigate the risks quite.