Security researchers presenting at this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, have uncovered a whole new compelling reason to switch off your phone.
Skycure’s Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani have demonstrated a startling vulnerability in iOS that can allow malicious hackers to crash any iOS device within range of a WiFi hotspot.
And it doesn’t even matter if targeted devices are trying to deliberately connect to the WiFi network or not. The researchers have dubbed their discovery “No iOS Zone”,
via How to crash any iPhone or iPad within WiFi range.
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