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Month: July 2021
Hearing reset on local hotel project
July 13, 2021 Mount Airy resident Otis M. “Bud” Oliver’s professional life was somewhat unusual due to encompassing both the judicial and legislative fields — serving as a judge and in city government — but he was recalled Tuesday as excelling at both. “He was just a good man,” former […]
iOS Bug Causes Specific Network Name to Disable Wi-Fi on iPhones
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A wireless network naming bug has been discovered in iOS that effectively disables an iPhone’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi. Security researcher Carl Schou found that after joining a Wi-Fi network with the name “%p%s%s%s%s%n” his iPhone’s Wi-Fi functionality was left “permanently disabled.” Changing a hotspot’s SSID did nothing to […]
Alert: Update to iOS 14.7 Now to Protect Against Dangerous Wi-Fi Bug
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iPhone users should upgrade to iOS 14.7 immediately to avoid a dangerous bug that disabled the device’s Wi-Fi, sometimes irreversibly. Before iOS 14.7, if a user connected to a Wi-Fi network with the name “%p%s%s%s%s%n,” a bug completely disabled the device’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi. According to user reports, […]
Turns Out That Low-Risk iOS Wi-Fi Naming Bug Can Hack iPhones Remotely
The Wi-Fi network name bug that was found to completely disable an iPhone’s networking functionality had remote code execution capabilities and was silently fixed by Apple earlier this year, according to new research. The denial-of-service vulnerability, which came to light last month, stemmed from the way iOS handled string formats […]
How to use a batch file to reset and renew a network connection in Windows 10
With a little planning and a small batch file, you can reset and renew a Windows 10 network connection without having to reboot your entire PC. Image: iStock/klmax In an era where much of the workforce operates from home or other remote places on a daily basis, establishing a reliable […]
Ransomware Attacks Targeting Unpatched EOL SonicWall SMA 100 VPN Appliances
Networking equipment maker SonicWall is alerting customers of an “imminent” ransomware campaign targeting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series and Secure Remote Access (SRA) products running unpatched and end-of-life 8.x firmware. The warning comes more than a month after reports emerged that remote access vulnerabilities in SonicWall SRA 4600 […]
“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. The mass incidents of disk wiping came […]
A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone
Here’s a funny bug: a security researcher has found that a carefully crafted network name causes a bug in the networking stack of iOS and can completely disable your iPhone’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi. On Twitter, Carl Schou showed that after joining a Wi-Fi network with a specific name […]
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