A cyber-security consultant, Jaime Sanchez, helped make the news go viral after he showed a Los Angeles Times reporter exactly what happens when the phone gets overloaded with thousands of text messages -- it just simply crashes. But this was more than just a crash and people were quick to make thei
Date: Feb 11, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Hackers can crash iPhones via Snapchat, says researcher
Jaime Sanchez, who works as a cyber-security consultant for Telefonica, a major telecommunications company in Spain, said he and another researcher found a weakness in Snapchats system that allows hackers to send thousands of messages to individual users in a matter of seconds. Sanchez said he and
The researchers, Jaime Sanchez and Pablo San Emeterio, first detailed the flaw in a Spanish-language blog posting Jan. 12, then presented their findings at the ShmooCon security conference in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18.