TikTok Issues New Guidelines
Addressing Security Flaws.
Owned by China-based
tech company ByteDance, the
popular video app issued the
guidelines on Wednesday.
We do not allow dangerous individuals or organizations to use our platform to promote terrorism, crime, or other types of behavior that could cause harm, TikTok Community Guidelines, via NBC News.
When there is a credible threat to public safety, we handle the issue by banning the account and cooperating with relevant
legal authorities, TikTok Community Guidelines, via NBC News.
Security flaws had been
detected by Israeli cyberthreat
intelligence research team Check Point Research.
The team discovered that
hackers had access to TikTok
users' personal information.
Hackers also had the
capability to delete or
manipulate user content.
Check Point researchers learned that a hacker can force a TikTok user onto a web server controlled by the hacker, making it possible for the attacker to send unwanted requests on behalf of the user, Check Point Research statement, via NBC News.
TikTok was informed of the
app's vulnerabilities in November
and has since addressed the issues