Indian army issues new Internet consultant after exercise Smeshapp Pakistan

Earlier this year, all media in India were dissecting the attack on an airbase in Pathankot. From veterans and defense expert citizens, many wondered how an attack of this scale managed to penetrate a high security zone and Pathankot.

Move over a couple of months, and we read reports of how Pakistan has managed to get access to critical information vital for a very simple trick. Exploit security vulnerabilities in applications permissions. The modus operandi was quite simple. In view of this, uncontrolled elements create an application called Smeshapp (which has since been pulled down from the app store). It seemed to be a communication application like WhatsApp. However, in seeking permits beyond what is necessary, the application would then send requests to the list of the infected phone contacts.

And this is how the database of vulnerable road users just grew. Unfortunately, that list includes people in the defense force with critical information about the locations of staff in real time and the ability to record sensitive conversations by accessing the microphone on the device. To learn more about how to work the application, you can read here.

According to a report IBNLive, the Indian Army has issued a notice asking soldiers to stay away from the Internet. In addition, the notice mentioned that the staff should refrain from seeing pornographic content on Facebook or other social networking sites. In addition, the counseling staff asked not to use your photos in uniform as display images in WhatsApp or Facebook, among others.

It is interesting that pornography categorically mentioned. It is worth noting that according to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, terrorist organizations like the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda have been using platforms such as eBay, Reddit and pornographic videos to transfer to your next operation coded messages