Only a couple of weeks after the initial iPhone Wi-Fi bug was found, the same security researcher Carl Schou has found another similar issue. Schou tweeted today that if an iPhone comes in range of a Wi-Fi network named ‘%secretclub%power’, then that iPhone will no longer be able to use […]
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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 […]
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 […]