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This new text bomb crashes most Mac and iOS apps with a single unicode symbol

sudshr47 February 15, 2018

 TechCrunch has learned of a potentially serious new bug affecting a wide range of Apple devices. During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser discovered two unicode symbols in a non-English language that can crash any Apple device that uses Apple’s default San Francisco font. The bug instigates crashes on iPhones, iPads, Macs and even… Read More

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This single-character message can crash your iPhone

sudshr47 February 15, 2018

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There’s a new iOS bug in town, and — like so many times before — it appears to be fairly easy to exploit. 

Italian blog MobileWorld first reported its existence, and The Verge noticed and tested the bug, which consists of partially or fully crashing an iPhone just by sending a message. 

The message in question has to contain a single character from the Indian Telugu language (not included here for obvious reasons). When the message is opened on an iPhone running iOS 11.2.5, the iPhone’s native Messages app and certain third-party app including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger will crash. In some cases, the iPhone will simply revert to its login screen and require you to enter your PIN again.  Read more…

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This simple text message can paralyze your iPhone

sudshr47 January 18, 2018

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A newly discovered iOS bug lets an attacker construct a simple text message which, when sent to an iPhone, immediately freezes and possibly restarts it. 

Software developer Abraham Masri has identified the bug and christened it chaiOS (which we must admit is a pretty awesome name). Masri told BuzzFeed, who first wrote about the bug, that he found it while “fuzzing with the operating system.”

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Apple fixes HomeKit bug that left users’ doors open to hackers

sudshr47 December 8, 2017

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Apple has fixed a vulnerability in its HomeKit internet-of-things platform that allowed a hacker to take remote control of users’ gadgets, including smart locks. 

9to5Mac first wrote about the vulnerability, which it says is “difficult to reproduce.” Still, it was dangerous. If there was one iPhone or iPad running iOS 11.2 connected to a HomeKit user’s iCloud account, that account was vulnerable. An attacker could potentially tamper with a user’s smart lights or thermostats, or — even worse — open their garage or even their front door if it had a HomeKit-enabled smart lock. 

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Apple Bug Security TC WTF

Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac

sudshr47 November 28, 2017

 Wow, this is a bad one. On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra (10.13.1 (17B48)), it appears that anyone can log in just by putting “root” in the user name field in a certain place. This is a huge, huge problem. Apple will fix it probably within hours but holy moly. Do not leave your Mac unattended until this is resolved. Read More

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