{"id":8077,"date":"2018-10-15T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:54:14","slug":"a-malicious-message-is-bricking-ps4s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/a-malicious-message-is-bricking-ps4s\/","title":{"rendered":"A malicious message is bricking PS4s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Numerous PS4 owners on Reddit and across social media are warning of a message containing a string of characters that can reportedly cause Sony\u2019s console to seize up and crash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Like the iPhone iMessage bug not long ago this latest occurrence of “messaging gone wild<\/em>” sees users PS4s crash and in some cases brick due to the console freaking out over its contents.<\/p>\n
Suggestions from the community, as Sony haven’t really said much about it yet, are to enable private messaging only – so only your friends can message you and deleting any messages received via the PSN companion app and not touching messages on your PlayStation.<\/p>\n