Outline

•Introduction.•Advantages of Viber .•Disadvantages of Viber.•Security of Viber•Viber VS Other apps.•Reviews.

Introduction

Viber is application which users can use it for phone calls and exchange images, video and audio media messages.

viber was founded by four Israeli partners and developed by Viber Media company.

It was initially launched for iPhone on December 2, 2010.

On reaching 90 million users on July 24, 2012, group messaging service and HD Voice engine were added to both Android and iPhone applications.

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Viber Support Arabic , English, Chinese , French , German , Italian , Russian and Spanish Languages.

On February 13, 2014 The sale of Viber reached $900 million

Also Source of the Application written by C++ in PC , by C language for IOS and in Android (JAVA language).

Advantageexcellent design and implantation. Registration is simple it is not necessary to enter a username and password, but only the number of your phone and after a few moments you will receive SMS with four digit PIN which you enter and the registration is complete.

Calling is very easy when you call a contact from the menu, you can choose whether you want to call through Viber or normal GSM call.

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The quality of sound calls is very good , it all depends on connectivity.

Viber supports sending and receiving messages for free

possibility of sending the images via Viber you send from your gallery on your mobile phone.

Viber's support system was defaced by Syrian Electronic Army. According to Viber, no sensitive user information was accessed.

Disadvantage Images received are unencrypted Doodles received are unencrypted Videos received are unencrypted Location images sent and received are unencrypted

Data is stored on the Viber Amazon Servers in an unencrypted format

Data stored on the Viber Amazon Servers is not deleted immediately

Data stored on the Viber Amazon Servers can be easily accessed without any authentication mechanism (Simply visiting the intercepted link on a web browser gives us complete access to the data)

Security: Viber scored 1 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s secure messaging scorecard. It lost points because communications are not encrypted with a key the provider doesn't have access to, users can't verify contacts' identities, past messages are not secure if the encryption keys are stolen.

Viber was detected as "Win32/KipodToolsCby" Malware by Microsoft Security Essentials. A Microsoft support MVP .

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Presenters

Mazin El.FatihMosab El.TomMohammed JaylaniMohammed HamedMohammed El.Rashied

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