Last week, WhatsApp confirmed that a vulnerability allowed hackers to use its encrypted messaging app to install government-grade spyware on smartphones. The news is a huge PR setback for WhatsApp, which boasts security as a selling point to its 1.5 billion users worldwide. But WhatsApp is hardly the first tech company to suffer such a blow.
See how security threats are rapidly overpowering the defenses that tech giants are putting up to shield their users.