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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: 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]