{"id":392701,"date":"2018-01-18T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=392701"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:15:40","slug":"text-bomb-latest-apple-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/text-bomb-latest-apple-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Text bomb’ is latest Apple bug"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new “text bomb” affecting Apple’s iPhone and Mac computers has been discovered.<\/p>\n
Abraham Masri, a software developer, tweeted about the flaw which typically causes an iPhone to crash and in some cases restart.<\/p>\n
Simply sending a message containing a link which pointed to Mr Masri’s code on programming site GitHub would be enough to activate the bug – even if the recipient did not click the link itself.<\/p>\n
Mr Masri said he “always reports bugs” before releasing them. Apple has not yet commented on the issue.<\/p>\n
On a Mac, the bug reportedly makes the Safari browser crash, and causes other slowdowns.<\/p>\n
But users should not be alarmed.<\/p>\n
Security expert Graham Cluley\u00a0wrote on his blog that the bug\u00a0does not present anything to be particularly worried about – it’s merely very annoying.<\/p>\n