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Thursday 4 June 2015

HOLLA!!! SKYPE USERS:

These weeks are going really bad for messenger application , Recently we saw a bug in IOS which crashes the phone with just a simple text message .
And Now the mighty favourite Skype VOIP client is in spotlight.
A recently discovered bug , affects all version of Skype client in both Desktop and mobile versions
This vulnerability is exploited by just sending a eight character message to any skype user , The bug is annoying that it forces user to reinstall the skype to work again perfectly . The charecter that causes this issue is -- http://:
Yes , its true just send  http://: to any person and the app crashes ,

Its a nice weird world of Information Security , Any thing is possible when it comes to security.

However Microsoft has fixed this issue with an skype update

Monday 1 June 2015

Holla i-users:

A new security bug has been discovered in iOS mobile operating systems , which leads to DOS (Denial Of Service) attack type --- In simple anyone could turn off your phone by sending just a simple text message .

The magical text which performs the magic is:
effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ #

This simple message has the ability to crash your Iphones.

Apple is fixing this issue and will provide a working patch in few days ,

Remedy--
Hide preview in every message app.




Happy Hacking