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 Tork on Thursday April 23 2015, @09:29PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @09:42PM
What I think he is suggesting is to pro-actively enter "bad data" for your carrier specific SSID (so that the phone will fail to connect to it and be immune to the attack.) My guess is the carrier SSID is already hard-coded, but it might be worth a try to see if it's even possible.