Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/connecting-to-malicious-wi-fi-networks-can-mess-with-your-iphone/
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 ability to join that network or any other networks going forward, reverse engineer Carl Schou reported on Twitter.
Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone
Jun 21, 2021, 9:27pm UTC
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/connecting-to-malicious-wi-fi-networks-can-mess-with-your-iphone/
> 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 ability to join that network or any other networks going forward, reverse engineer Carl Schou reported on Twitter.