iPhone bug makes it easy for someone to break your Wi-Fi. Here’s the fix and how to prevent it

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 Computer 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.

I’ve tested this with an iPhone running iOS 14.6, and it does indeed disable Wi-Fi, and a reboot doesn’t fix it.

So, how do you fix it if you’re relying on your iPhone?

The fix is to go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.

OK, but how do you prevent this from happening in the first place? After all, little stops pranksters — or possibly a hacker using this as a vulnerability to do something more malicious — from setting up Wi-Fi hotspots with this name and no password.

Got to Settings > Wi-Fi and make sure that Auto-Join Hotspots is set to Ask to Join or Never.

Source: ZDNet

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