{"id":41420,"date":"2021-06-20T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a3fcb1f3-0014-41fb-be44-7f99b6266dd2"},"modified":"2021-06-20T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:33:00","slug":"iphone-bug-makes-it-easy-for-someone-to-break-your-wi-fi-heres-the-fix-and-how-to-prevent-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/iphone-bug-makes-it-easy-for-someone-to-break-your-wi-fi-heres-the-fix-and-how-to-prevent-it\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone bug makes it easy for someone to break your Wi-Fi &#8212; here&#8217;s the fix and how to prevent it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/hub\/i\/r\/2021\/05\/12\/19fb47f7-fd35-476e-9866-266861da5934\/thumbnail\/770x578\/9c3a4cc39ac46cacea1f7a2d77b13195\/iphone-night.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot with a specific name can cause your iPhone&#8217;s Wi-Fi functionality to break, and even a reboot won&#8217;t fix it.<\/p>\n<p>The bug, spotted by reverse engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vm_call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Carl Schou<\/a>&nbsp;and first reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/iphone-bug-breaks-wifi-when-you-join-hotspot-with-unusual-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Bleeping Computers<\/a><\/em> 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 <em>%p%s%s%s%s%n<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-source\">\n<div class=\"twitterContainer\" readability=\"5.8481012658228\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.8481012658228\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After joining my personal WiFi with the SSID \u201c%p%s%s%s%s%n\u201d, my iPhone permanently disabled it\u2019s WiFi functionality. Neither rebooting nor changing SSID fixes it :~) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2eue90JFu3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">pic.twitter.com\/2eue90JFu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carl Schou (@vm_call) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vm_call\/status\/1405937492642123782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tested this with an iPhone running iOS 14.6, and it does indeed disable Wi-Fi, and a reboot doesn&#8217;t fix it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Must read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/apple-will-finally-give-iphone-and-ipad-users-an-important-choice-to-make\/\"><strong>Apple will finally give iPhone and iPad users an important choice to make<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, how do you fix it if, like me, you&#8217;re relying on your iPhone?<\/p>\n<p>The fix is to go to <strong>Settings &gt; General &gt; Reset &gt; Reset Network Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After doing this you will have to reconfigure your network settings.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\"> <\/section>\n<p>OK, but how do you prevent this from happening in the first place? After all, little stops pranksters &#8212; or possibly a hacker using this as a vulnerability to do something more malicious &#8212; from setting up Wi-Fi hotspots with this name and no password.<\/p>\n<p>Got to<strong> Settings &gt; Wi-Fi<\/strong> and make sure that Auto-Join Hotspots in set to <strong>Ask to Join<\/strong> or <strong>Never<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Better safe than sorry!<\/p>\n<p>I can also confirm that this does not seem to be an issue for Android users. I tried a number of handsets and they all connected fine.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/iphone-bug-makes-it-easy-for-someone-to-break-your-wi-fi-heres-the-fix-and-how-to-prevent-it\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful of random hotspots with weird names!<br \/>\nREAD MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zdnet-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>iPhone bug makes it easy for someone to break your Wi-Fi -- here&#039;s the fix and how to 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