THE NSA is urging Apple and Android users to change specific settings on their phone to prevent any possible cyberattacks.
The security agency is raising awareness about a linked device setting that could fully ‘clone’ your text messages on someone else’s phone.
Signal or Whatsapp users are made vulnerable to the linked devices and group link features.
Linked devices allow users to access their synced text messages on any of their approved devices.
This means that if you have WhatsApp or Signal on your phone, you can also access those messages on your laptop or iPad.
The group link setting allows users to invite other people to a group chat using a link rather than having to manually add them.
Both features have their perks, but the linked devices setting may prove to be more harmful than beneficial.
If used incorrectly or hacked, the feature could allow all of the users’ text messages to be synced on an unknown device.
Luckily, its easy to stop this from happening.
Go to the settings menu and click “Linked Devices.”
Under that tab, users can view all of the devices their messages are synced to.
If the user doesn’t recognize any of the devices on the list, they can remove their messages from the device.
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