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Google Researcher Finds Nasty iMessage Bug That ‘Bricks’ iPhone

Time and again, we have seen that sending a string of particular characters in iMessage can lead to strange things on an iPhone. There are different character combinations that can render an iPhone useless. While Apple has been quick to fix such bugs, this time a Google researcher found a nasty one that “bricks” Apple […]

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Playstation 4 consoles collapse due to “text bomb”

Further details about the incident are still unknown A persistent error on PlayStation 4, Sony‘s most prestigious game console to date, could exploit and collapse the console via a text message. According to specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security, malicious hackers behind this campaign send infected messages to the consoles to […]

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