Oh look here. There’s a nasty bug in iOS that can cause your device to reboot and crash among other things if it is in the range of a malicious WiFi network. Here’s the details:
Skycure bods Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit say the attack, dubbed “No iOS Zone”, will render vulnerable iOS things within range unstable – or even entirely unusable by triggering constant reboots.
“Anyone can take any router and create a Wi-Fi hotspot that forces you to connect to their network, and then manipulate the traffic to cause apps and the operating system to crash,” Sharabani told the RSA security conference in San Francisco today.
“There is nothing you can do about it other than physically running away from the attackers. This is not a denial-of-service where you can’t use your Wi-Fi – this is a denial-of-service so you can’t use your device even in offline mode.”
Charming. The good news is Apple is working on a fix. However, there’s basically no way to protect yourself as there’s no way to tell if you’re in range of one of these networks. So until this is fixed, if your iDevice constantly reboots, you’ll have to get out of range of whatever network is causing it.
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Bug In iOS Can Remotely Cause Reboots And Crashes
Oh look here. There’s a nasty bug in iOS that can cause your device to reboot and crash among other things if it is in the range of a malicious WiFi network. Here’s the details:
Skycure bods Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit say the attack, dubbed “No iOS Zone”, will render vulnerable iOS things within range unstable – or even entirely unusable by triggering constant reboots.
“Anyone can take any router and create a Wi-Fi hotspot that forces you to connect to their network, and then manipulate the traffic to cause apps and the operating system to crash,” Sharabani told the RSA security conference in San Francisco today.
“There is nothing you can do about it other than physically running away from the attackers. This is not a denial-of-service where you can’t use your Wi-Fi – this is a denial-of-service so you can’t use your device even in offline mode.”
Charming. The good news is Apple is working on a fix. However, there’s basically no way to protect yourself as there’s no way to tell if you’re in range of one of these networks. So until this is fixed, if your iDevice constantly reboots, you’ll have to get out of range of whatever network is causing it.
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