Snapchat Publishes First Transparency Report

Snapchat has released its first transparency report, covering a four-month period from November through February, and the data shows that the company didn’t receive any National Security Letters and got fewer than 400 total requests for data from the United States government. Snapchat, a Californ...

Snapchat: Captcha Bypass in Snapchat's Geofilter Submission Process

Hi, Overview: Snapchat provides a form in which users can submit "Geofilters". These are filters which get applied to users snaps when they are in specific geolocations. The form https://www.snapchat.com/geofilters/submit.html allows for the submission of these "Geofilters" as an anonymous user...

Snapchat: Vulnerable to JavaScript injection. (WXS) (Javascript injection)!

Vulnerable to JavaScript injection. WXS Description: Java script injected in activity: net.hockeyapp.android.UpdateActivity with injection String: document.getElementsByTagName'body'0.setAttribute'style', 'background-color: red'; Recommended Solution: Local HTML modifications via malware or other...

Google Retools reCAPTCHA with No CAPTCHA

Google is getting right to the point with the latest update to its reCAPTCHA authentication system. Rather than have users signing in to an online service try to decipher blurred text, Google has simplified the process by simply asking users whether they’re a bot. One click later, they’re...

Twitter Launches Digits – A Password Free Login Service For App Developers

There’s a good news for app developers. On Wednesday at Twitter’s first annual developer conference Flight, the company announced a new tool for developers which will allow users to log-in to mobile applications using their phone numbers rather than a traditional username and password combination...

The Snappening — Snapchat Hacker Threatens to Leak thousands of Images

The waves of celebrities photos have not yet stopped completely, and a new privacy threat has emerged exposing tens of thousands of private photographs and videos of innocent users are circulating over the Internet. The personal image that are believed to be sent through Snapchat — the ephemeral...

Threatpost News Wrap, May 9, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the major news stories of the last couple of weeks, including the proposal in TLS 1.3 to drop RSA key transport, the Snapchat FTC settlement and the end of Windows XP support. And no Heartbleed talk! Download: digitalunderground153.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalve...

Snapchat Settles With FTC Over Privacy and Security Concerns

Snapachat, the maker of the popular video and photo chat app, has agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that the company misrepresented the supposedly ephemeral nature of the messages users send and failed to take adequate security precautions with the data it collects, leading...

Snapchat user accounts vulnerable to Brute-Force Attack

Snapchat, a Smartphone application that lets users share snapshots with friends is catching fire among teenagers. It was first hacked in December when 4.6 million Snapchat users were exposed in a database breach. Later, the denial-of-service attack and CAPTCHA Security bypass were discovered by...

Snapchat app vulnerable to denial-of-service attack, allows remotely crash iPhone

SNAPCHAT, photo sharing app is the majority choice for variety of users. Recently, the company has faced data breach and Captcha bypass vulnerability, and just yesterday a new denial-of-service attack has been revealed which can crash an iPhone. Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher has found the...

Snapchat's new Security feature Hacked in 30 Minutes; CAPTCHA Cracking tool published

Snapchat suffered a massive data breach back in December in which 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers were compromised. Earlier this month, the company launched an update to its iOS and Android apps, added a new security measure to ensure that new users aren't spambots or a robot. While signi...

Snapchat's CAPTCHA Hacked in 30 Minutes, 100 Line of Code

It was only going to be a matter of time before someone figured out a way past Snapchat’s new CAPTCHA verification method. Just one day after the photo sharing application announced its latest security measure, one researcher claimed Wednesday that he was able to hack it with as few as 100 lines ...

4.6 Million Usernames, Phone Numbers Leaked in Snapchat Hack

It didn’t take long for hackers to exploit a previously disclosed vulnerability in the popular photo sharing application Snapchat. As yet unidentified hackers spent yesterday’s New Year’s holiday dumping 4.6 million of the service’s usernames and partial phone numbers and posting them online for...

SnapChat Vulnerable to Two Exploits

After claiming the makers of SnapChat repeatedly ignored their disclosures over a period of four months, Gibson Security recently published the full details of a pair of bugs in the photo and video sharing application. One could give an attacker the ability to connect phone numbers with usernames...

Snapchat Complies with Govt., Sends Images to Law Enforcement

Snapchat cleared up any doubts users may have had about the privacy surrounding images sent back and forth on its photo messaging service when the company confirmed this week that it has shared some images with law enforcement. Snapchat, started in 2011, has gained popularity over the last year –...