In this technical or online era, every person around the globe has a smartphone. Some people have android phones and some have Apple’s or iPhones. Apple’s are normally safer than the alternatives. But this time it has some change. If someone has an iPhone, that doesn’t mean that the phone, iPad, and Mac are safe. Apple also has some vulnerabilities.
The wi-fi security of the iPhones has some issues, like crafted SSID bug, where the combination of characters can trick the Apples into processing the SSID as code and locking up the wi-fi as a result.
Dangers from all the bugs when someone pressurizes a device into a difficult state can often follow up with another attack. For example, planting seemingly benign code that then downloads nastier malware.
For safety purposes, someone would have to choose a Wi-Fi network with an odd name. They may have assumed they would be unfortunate to fall for such an attack. The latest flaw was technical, someone was only at risk if they left their settings open.
“Although this bug has been fixed,” agrees ESET’s Jake Moore. He also said,” like all exploits, the very nature of them means they remain unknown until they are located and therefore, exercising caution to all connectivity must be carried out.”
