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Security researcher: Attackers can DDoS your iPhone using Snapchat

article published on 8 February, 2014

Internet security researcher Jaime Sanchez has discovered and posted a vulnerability found in the Snapchat mobile app that could allow attackers to launch a DDoS attack and disable your iPhone. If exploited, attackers can send thousands of messages to individual users in less than three seconds, overwhelming and disabling an iPhone and eventually causing it to freeze up entirely and crash. ... [ read the full article ]

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