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: 2) by iwoloschin on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:53PM
The Ars article on this mentioned that there's another two year old bug that can force an iPhone to connect to a wireless network...so yeah, it could be an area denial attack.