A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
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Snapchat escapes Australian cyberbullying crackdown, for now
Australia’s cyberbullying crackdown won’t see the country putting any legal muscle into forcing “smaller” social media firms like Snapchat to take down harassing content, a Parliament spokesman said on Tuesday. 
‘The Snappening’: stolen Snapchat photos site defaced, details of site owner published
Owner of TheSnappening.org photo site, Mudit Grover, took the stolen Snapchat images and the site down. But within hours, attackers identifying themselves as “Team Danny” allegedly took over the domain and published Grover’s personal details. 
Snapchat to address sketchy third-party apps with public API … at some point
Oh, those darn third-party apps, their home-brewed APIs and their photo-leaking ways, Snapchat moaned on Wednesday morning, promising to cook up a public API to fix the situation… sooner or later. 
‘The Snappening’: Snapchat images flood the internet after SnapSaved.com hack
Hundreds of thousands of supposedly self-destructing Snapchat snaps have been apparently jimmied out of the database for SnapSaved.com, a third-party website not affiliated with Snapchat which allows users to save unopened photos from Snapchat without the sender knowing the images have been saved.
SSCC 167 – Avoiding the shock of Shellshock (and more!) [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly Chet Chat podcast! Shellshock leads the list, of course, but Snapchat, cybersecurity awareness and the iPhone 6 all get a look in too…
Snapchat says fat spam is not its fault
Have your Snapchat friends taken to calling you fat recently? If so, don’t get mad at them – their suggestion that you pop a weight loss pill is probably the result of having their account hacked.
Why would we let you say “No” to something that’s free? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s our latest 60 Second Security video for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy…
Target tops the list of most epic privacy fails
Our readers ranked Target’s data breach ahead of Adobe, Snapchat, Google Glass, and Talking Angela for the biggest privacy failure of the past year.
Facebook tests Snapchat-like vanishing act for posts
Faceboook’s going Mission: Impossible, ephemeral-message on us, having confirmed that it’s testing an auto-delete feature that will let users schedule their posts’ demise. 