Indeed, security issues in WhatsApp have been brought out from time to time by experts and analysts with demonstrable steps on how it is done or can be executed. To be fair to the Facebook-managed organization, WhatsApp has responded and fixed some of these issues. But is the threat completely gone?

One way to find that out is by regularly reading sites like Security Zap, which lays out all the different methods average consumers can adopt to protect themselves from cyber attacks.