Ars Technica - Malicious Wi-Fi naming

[Dennis Kane]

https://apple.news/AYikZMbIfRZW_3uHUhYzhOA

apple.news

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

The world's most secure consumer OS is bitten by a garden-variety programming bug….

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

https://twitter.com/vm_call/status/1405937492642123782?s=20

Schou, who is the owner of hacking resource Secret Club, initially saw no easy way to restore Wi-Fi capabilities. Eventually, he found that users could reset network functionality by opening Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.

[pete]

When I first saw this e-mail title, I thought it might be about facetious WiFi names, like "FBI Van 3" or (ours) "IRS Surveillance Net".

[Matt Wilbur EFS]

I did too. But a coworker was hit with this in DFW a couple of weeks ago. Definitely real.

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