SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

Title    A New CSS-Based Web Attack Will Crash and Restart Your iPhone
Date    Tuesday September 18 2018, @09:16AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the and-others dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/09/18/0332241

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/

Original Submission

Links
  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "a proof-of-concept" - https://twitter.com/pwnsdx/status/1040944750973595649
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29041
© Copyright 2023 - SoylentNews, All Rights Reserved

printed from SoylentNews, A New CSS-Based Web Attack Will Crash and Restart Your iPhone on 2023-07-07 00:21:43