Security experts at Minded Security firm have recently discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS X AFNetworking. Popular mobile applications like Pinterest, Vine, Heroku, and Simple use the networking library. The issue occurs even when the mobile application requests the library to apply checks for server validation in SSL certificates. The researchers found the flaw while were conducting the analysis of a mobile application for one of their clients. The development team behind the framework AFnetworking promptly pushed a fix for the security issue.”]
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