Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Beware, Character This Letter Make iPhone "Lame"

Found security gap alias new bug on Apple's iOS operating system. As always, the bug is relatively easy to exploit.

Some iPhone functions can be paralyzed when the user receives a text message, in which there is a letter character in the Telugu Indian language.

As for the bugs are disturbed is the default messaging application iMessage, as well as third-party messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

In some cases, users do not even need to open messages or scroll notifications. Bugs work aggressively, where the iPhone screen will die. When turned on, the user will be prompted to enter the PIN code again.

In the interim, how to fix the impact of the bug is to delete the entire iMessage conversation from the browser on the desktop. Apple says this bug infects the latest operating system, iOS 11, macros High Sierra, watchOS 4, and tvOS 11, as compiled KompasTekno, Monday (19/2/2018), from Mashable.

Apple spokesman boasted a fix for this bug will be coming soon in each version of the operating system in some future time. Not mentioned in detail, when the release date.

What is clear, the spread of this bug already extends. Not just from the ignorant who sends iMessage messages containing bugs, but also via Twitter.

Some Twitter users are typing Indian letter characters that contain bugs to their names. There are also some who write the character of Indian letters Teluga to tweet it. As a result, users who are scrolling linimasa Twitter can instantly find his iPhone crashes.

About a month ago, there were also dangerous bugs found and named "ChaiOS". The bug makes the iPhone screen unable to move alias freeze just because it received a message containing a special link. Apple was able to combat the bug in less than a week.

Previously, there was a bug that made the iPhone crash because it received a message containing a certain emoji combination.

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