{"id":402976,"date":"2018-02-20T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402976"},"modified":"2018-02-20T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:07:29","slug":"apple-pushes-fix-to-latest-text-bomb-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402976","title":{"rendered":"Apple pushes fix to latest text bomb bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Apple has tackled a bug that causes its devices to freeze if they encounter a specific character from the Telugu alphabet &#8211; a language native to India.<\/p>\n<p>Following the glitch&#8217;s discovery, pranksters had used the symbol on social media, private messages and\u00a0even Uber&#8217;s app to cause problems.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has now\u00a0issued a software update for its\u00a0iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, smartwatches and TV set-top boxes.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a series of &#8220;text bomb&#8221; flaws to affect Apple devices.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier examples include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">the Chaios bug,\u00a0which caused the Messages app to freeze\u00a0or restart if a special link was included in a text<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">an exploit triggered by messages\u00a0featuring a white flag symbol, a zero, a rainbow emoji and a hidden character<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">the inclusion of a\u00a0nonsense word in Arabic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US firm&#8217;s security update refers to the latest flaw as a &#8220;memory corruption issue&#8221; triggered by &#8220;processing a maliciously crafted string&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was first reported by the developers\u00a0of the Aloha mobile web browser on 12 February.<\/p>\n<p>It affects Apple&#8217;s Messages app as well as third-party services including Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Outlook and Gmail, but not Telegram or Skype,\u00a0according to the Verge news site.<\/p>\n<p>The Telugu letter involved is not very common in Telugu words, but because the sound it makes is unusual it cannot be easily substituted with another character when required.<\/p>\n<p>Telugu itself is mostly spoken in south-eastern India, where it is the official language of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has tackled a bug that causes its devices to freeze if they encounter a specific character from the Telugu alphabet &#8211; a language native to India. Following the glitch&#8217;s discovery, pranksters had used the symbol on social media, private messages and\u00a0even Uber&#8217;s app to cause problems. Apple has now\u00a0issued a software update for its\u00a0iPhones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":402977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[224,17231],"class_list":["post-402976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-text-bomb-bug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}