Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinJun 21, 2021, 5:02 pm565 pts
Enlarge (credit: Apple) There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name, a researcher disclosed over the weekend. By connecting to a Wi-Fi network that uses the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n” (quotation marks not included), iPhones and iPads lose the…

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