How to Keep Attackers From Locking You Out of WhatsApp
by David Murphy from Lifehacker on (#5GHR1)

Though the result is more annoying than dangerous, a newly exploited quirk of WhatsApp's two-factor authentication system does appear to make it relatively easy for an attacker to lock you out of your account for varying amounts of time. And all a bad actor needs to pull it off, as of this writing, is to know the...