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IOS flaw means you can kill all Apples in a wifi area

by on23 April 2015


Apple does the rest of the world a favour

The brilliant, super-cool security experts at Apple have installed a feature in the iOS which turns off all Apple gear within a wi-fi radius.

We assume that it is not a mistake, as nothing ever comes out of Apple which is not perfect and everyone knows that Apple's security is the best in the world.

What the latest super cool Apple feature does is lets attackers force iPhones and iPads into restart loops, repeatedly crashing and rebooting, using nothing but aWi-Fi network.

Of course Apple has kept such a super feature secret, otherwise non-Apple users will be able to switch off iPhone and iPad users and wipe the smug look off their faces. After all there is nothing more amusing that watching an Apple fanboys's face when he is trying to thrust his iPhone in your face when you tell him it appears to be rebooting all the time.
Security researchers Skycure, who found the feature, called it a "no iOS Zone", there's no way to fix their phone other than escaping the range of the malicious network; every time it reboots, it crashes almost immediately.

The basis of the attack uses a "specially crafted SSL certificate", typically used to ensure a secure connection, to trigger a bug in the operating system that crashes out any app using SSL.

"With our finding, we rushed to create a script that exploits the bug over a network interface," the researchers wrote. "As SSL is a security best practice and is utilized in almost all apps in the Apple app store, the attack surface is very wide. We knew that any delay in patching the vulnerability could lead to a serious business impact: an organized denial of service (DoS) attack can lead to big losses."

Once again the superior security experts at Apple have beaten Microsoft to a feature it does not have. We expect that Windows 10 will have to copy the feature just to stay in the marketplace.

The researchers say they have warned Apple of the error, but so far Apple have not replied. Apparently they fail to understand the concept of Apple making an error without a divine purpose.

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