{"id":122100,"date":"2015-06-04T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=122100"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:06:51","slug":"skype-falls-victim-to-text-chat-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=122100","title":{"rendered":"Skype falls victim to text chat bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skype says it has fixed a bug that caused its chat apps to repeatedly crash if a specific string of eight characters was sent to a user.<\/p>\n

The flaw affected its software on iOS, Android and some versions of Windows, but did not appear to affect Macs.<\/p>\n

“{We] have rolled out updates for all impacted platforms,” a Skype spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

The action came a week after a similar but unrelated bug was found to affect texting apps on iPhones.<\/p>\n

Apple has since described a workaround for that issue but is still working on a more permanent fix.<\/p>\n

Delete and reinstall<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem with Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, was first flagged by a Russia-based user on the company’s community forum.<\/p>\n

“Clearing chat history [does] not help, because when Skype downloads chat history from server, it will crash again,” wrote a person nicknamed Giperion.<\/p>\n

The report was later brought to prominence by the news site Venturebeat, which detailed a possible fix: the person who sent the original message must delete it, and the affected user needs to delete the Skype app and install an older version of the software.<\/p>\n

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It emerged that Apple’s devices were vulnerable to a text chat bug of their own last week<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, while it was easy to download and install an old version of Skype for Windows, it was more complicated to do so for iOS and Android devices.<\/p>\n

Updates for all affected platforms have since been rushed out.<\/p>\n

This is distinct to last week’s discovery of a text bug that crashes iOS devices, which involves messages featuring specific strings of Arabic, Chinese and other non-Latin characters.<\/p>\n

That flaw continues to affect Apple’s Messages app as well as third-party services, including Twitter and Snapchat.<\/p>\n

Apple’s temporary workaround – which involves telling Siri to “read unread messages” – tackles the problem in the company’s own chat app, but not others’.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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