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A New CSS-Based Web Attack Will Crash and Restart Your iPhone

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 18 2018, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly
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MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Fnord666

A security researcher has found a new way to crash and restart any iPhone — with just a few lines of code. Sabri Haddouche tweeted a proof-of-concept webpage with just 15 lines of code.

Sabri Haddouche tweeted a proof-of-concept webpage with just 15 lines of code which, if visited, will crash and restart an iPhone or iPad. Those on macOS may also see Safari freeze when opening the link.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/15/a-new-css-based-web-attack-will-crash-and-restart-your-iphone/

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  • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:49PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:49PM (#737024) Homepage Journal

    I have /dev/kmem disabled because it's considered a security hole. Partly for reasons like that. >.

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