iPhone bug makes it easy for someone to break your Wi-Fi -- here's the fix and how to prevent it
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for Hardware 2.0 | June 20, 2021 -- 12:33 GMT (05:33 PDT) | Topic: Security
Connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot with a specific name can cause your iPhone's Wi-Fi functionality to break, and even a reboot won't fix it.
The bug, spotted by reverse engineer Carl Schou and first reported by Bleeping Computers relies on attempting to connect to a hotspot with a specific name. Schou first noticed the issue when trying to connect to his hotspot named with the SSID %p%s%s%s%s%n.
After joining my personal WiFi with the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n”, my iPhone permanently disabled it’s WiFi functionality. Neither rebooting nor changing SSID fixes it :~) pic.twitter.com/2eue90JFu3
