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An iPhone bug lets you crash the interface with just four characters

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An iPhone bug lets you crash the interface with just four characters

First reported by TechCrunch, a mobile security researcher found that you can crash the iPhone’s interface by typing four characters in the search field. Just swipe over to the App Library and type “”:: into the search field (that’s two double quotation marks and two colons). The iPhone interface will reset. Further testers have clarified … Read more

Could the CrowdStrike crash happen on the Mac?

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Could the CrowdStrike crash happen on the Mac?

A couple of weeks ago, a massive global IT outage occurred when Windows computers running the CrowdStrike security software crashed. CrowdStrike is popular in enterprise installations, meaning businesses worldwide–including airlines such as Delta Air Lines–were shut down. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a CNBC interview that the CrowdStrike crash caused Delta to cancel about … Read more