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2 Guwahati-based students, Indrajeet Bhuyan & Saurav Kar discovered a vulnerability in the widely-popular messaging app WhatsApp which allows anyone to remotely crash WhatsApp just by sending a specially crafted message. Indrajeet Bhuyan, a class XII student of the Army Public School, Narengi and Saurav Kar, a class XI student of KV IOC, Noonmati in a video demonstration have showed how a 2000 words (2kb in size) message in special character set can crash WhatsApp messenger app. This discovery of the young students has been reported by a host of online news portals including the widely popular The Hacker News, which happens to be one of the world’s biggest security news portal. They tested the same and published an article about it on December 1. The report has been carried also by SOFTPEDIA giving elaborate details. More - goo.gl/0nNCfG Students discover vulnerability in WhatsApp | The Assam Tribune Online assamtribune
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:21:03 +0000

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