Year: 2014

WhatsApp passes 500,000,000 active users

According to the WhatsApp blog:

Thanks to all of you, half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users. In the last few months, we’ve grown fastest in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia, and our users are also sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day. We could go on, but for now, it’s more important that we get back to work – because here at WhatsApp, we’re just getting started.

Now that’s quite impressive, not only for the number of active users but for the amount of the activity as well.

heartleech – atypical “heartbleed” tool with a few more features

heartleech

heartleech
A typical “heartbleed” tool. What makes this different is:

  • autopwn (-a) that does all the steps needed to get private key
  • post-handshake (encrypted) heartbeats instead of during handshake
  • evades Snort IDS rules
  • loops making repeated requests (-l <loopcount>)
  • dumps binary data to file (-f <filename>)
  • IPv4 or IPv6 (-v <IPver>)
  • full 64k heartbleeds