It could not have get more worse
for the developing team of the popular Snapchat application. A security update
was released and interestingly it got hacked few hours later.
Lately, Snapchat has come under
huge fire since the data of 4.6 million snapchat user has been leaked on the
Internet. It was a great setback for the company as they believed that it is
the highly secured social networking site.
In order to improve the level of
security they released the new security update which was supposed to
distinguish the bots from the normal users thus ensuring a high level of
security. The company believed it will help them in improving the level of
security and will eventually put a barrier to hacking. The main purpose behind
this update was that bots will not be able to identify the ghosts thus they
will fail to retrieve the user data.
Actually, ghosts are snapchat images
which help in distinguishing the bots from actual users. According to hacker Steven
Hickson, he has developed a toll which can allow bots to identify the ghosts by
matching key areas and points. Well, the issue is that these ghosts or snapchat
images does not change continuously. SO, it is very easy to create tool which
can quite easily identify the ghosts. This makes the application and more vulnerable.
It is not only hacker Steven
Hickson who has raised voice against the low security level of the snapchat but
a 17 year old hacker from Texas has also claimed that snapchat has very
security level and this will not be fixed with any update until and unless they
do not work on improving the basics of this application. To be honest this is a
serious concern for all the snapchat users and they look towards the developers
for the fix.
Let’s wait and see how much time it
will take for the developers to improve the security. Will they ever be able to
make the system more secure and protected? Or they will fail just like they did
this time?
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