Seems like security researchers UNH Cyber Forensics Research & Educations GROUP after reporting them for the non-encrypted form of each user's data as we saw in our previous article he thought his people Viber, and not only!
Viber has finally added measures to encrypt app messages for Android and iOS so that hidden glances on the network can not see images, videos, and messages about the wider location of each user.
The new version of Android 4.3.1.21, released on Tuesday, includes according to information :
Improvements to the way Viber handles photos, videos, and messages, according to the Viber page for the Google Play App Store. The iOS version of Viber has been unchanged since April 23rd, but Viber last weekteam, stated that he is preparing to fix the issue. On Wednesday, the company said the fix was sent to Apple.
Because images and videos without encryption from a previous version of a user's Viber are not really private. Someone with Viber Network control can view or even modify images (or files) so they added the SecureMe software and so when an unauthorized person goes to see it on a Wi-Fi network it will show him an image that will write “protected by SecureMe”And will be replaced with the existing one where there would be an image in addition to inform that they stated that the messages between users are encrypted.
Viber replied Dan Hawke :
"Currently, the only data that are encrypted messages are text messages. Phone numbers and contact details are not encrypted. In every connection that is made when a call is made, its call is encrypted, but the call itself are the audio data) are not encrypted. We are currently working on a secure end-to-end secure call feature that will encrypt all calls. "
