With almost all Kenyans owning a smart phone, the information can be shared rapidly from one source to another. 

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If you are on WhatsApp, it is obvious you belong to at least one group, where members share a variety of stuff. 

Others create such items while others pass them on by forwarding. 

Luckily enough a forwarded message on WhatsApp is usually marked 'forwarded', which enables users to stay alert on fake news.

We all love video calls from friends and family members. 

Talking while seeing the face of a caller in the US when you are in Kenya is much fun. 

But do you know that is one of the vulnerabilities on WhatsApp?

It has come to the limelight that receiving video calls from, let's say a hacker, will mean welcoming him or her to remotely control your WhatsApp chats? 

The hacker will be able to send messages, delete some, and do everything else like the owner.

Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich, found out the critical vulnerability which could have compromised one's WhatsApp for answering a video call. 

She shared the findings on Twitter where she said "Memory corruption bug" only affecting WhatsApp user on Androids and iOS apps (iPhone) and not WhatsApp on the web which relies on WebRTC for video calls.

The researcher alerted WhatsApp concerning the vulnerability who later acknowledged it before they 'patched the issue on September 28 in its Android client and on October 3 in its iPhone client," Swati Khandelwal reported on it here: https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/hack-whatsapp-account-chats.html

For you to be safe, you need to update your WhatsApp regularly when a new version is released as well as disconnecting calls from unknown people.