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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-if-you-hold-it-differently dept.

The Guardian is reporting on a newly discovered bug in IOS which causes iDevices to continually crash and reboot.

Once the user has entered what its discoverer, security researchers Skycure, dubs the “no iOS Zone”, there’s no way to fix their phone other than escaping the range of the malicious network; every time it reboots, it crashes almost immediately.

The basis of the attack uses a “specially crafted SSL certificate”, typically used to ensure a secure connection, to trigger a bug in the operating system that crashes out any app using SSL.

More info on Skycure's blog.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by K_benzoate on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:56PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Thursday April 23 2015, @07:56PM (#174413)

    Can we at least keep the capitalization consistent? The official and correct way to write Apple's mobile OS name is "iOS". IOS [wikipedia.org], all caps, is the router operating system made by Cisco.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @09:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @09:27PM (#174444)

    wIfI hACK cREATES nO gO zONE fOR Ios.

    (with rounded corners, for good measure)

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Thursday April 23 2015, @10:28PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 23 2015, @10:28PM (#174461) Journal

    Cisco IOS suck balls too..

    Any packet-of-death for them too? please? ;-)

  • (Score: 1) by martyb on Thursday April 23 2015, @10:54PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 23 2015, @10:54PM (#174470) Journal

    Can we at least keep the capitalization consistent? The official and correct way to write Apple's mobile OS name is "iOS". IOS, all caps, is the router operating system made by Cisco.

    Duly noted and fixed! Thanks!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @07:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @07:35AM (#174568)

    IOS [wikipedia.org], all caps, is the router operating system made by Cisco.

    What, you mean the company made the iPhone?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_iPhone [wikipedia.org]