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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:47PM
So iOS doesn't automatically try to connect to anything with an SSID which it had connected to previously? Setting up an access point with the same SSID as the local Starbucks isn't exactly rocket surgery.
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