TikTok Issues New Guidelines <br />Addressing Security Flaws.<br />Owned by China-based <br />tech company ByteDance, the <br />popular video app issued the <br />guidelines on Wednesday.<br />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.<br />When there is a credible threat to public safety, we handle the issue by banning the account and cooperating with relevant <br />legal authorities, TikTok Community Guidelines, via NBC News.<br />Security flaws had been <br />detected by Israeli cyberthreat <br />intelligence research team Check Point Research.<br />The team discovered that <br />hackers had access to TikTok <br />users' personal information.<br />Hackers also had the <br />capability to delete or <br />manipulate user content.<br />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.<br />TikTok was informed of the <br />app's vulnerabilities in November <br />and has since addressed the issues
