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Snapchat vulnerability can be exploited to crash iPhones, researcher says

2014-02-10 18:07:33| InfoWorld: Top News

A vulnerability in Snapchat allows attackers to launch denial-of-service attacks against users of the popular photo messaging app, causing their phones to become unresponsive and even crash. According to Jaime Sanchez, the security researcher who discovered the issue, authorization tokens accompanying Snapchat requests from authenticated users don't expire.

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