Be Careful Of The Streets Wifi, It Will Make Your Phone Become "Stone"

Adverse believers can build a false Wi-Fi network, with high accuracy, to a unit of iPhone attack.

In hacker attacks, denial of service attacks (ie, a large number of computer hackers controlled access request to a Web site and servers, causing the site can not serve normal user) is very common, in general, this attack occurred in the field of Internet application server .

However, a recent study found that a security company, the use of a loophole in Apple's iPhone on Wi-Fi, you can use the attack script, of a department or one of Apple's mobile phone software, launch denial of service attacks, in the hands of mobile phone users, will become "bricks."

On Tuesday, the US security industry's largest annual conference of the "RSA Conference", held in San Francisco, Calif., Each network security companies have also released a variety of reports. Mobile security company announced the above Skycure denial of service attack reports iOS devices.

The company said the poor believers can set up fake Wi-Fi network, with high accuracy, to a department iPhone attack.

CEO Adi salad Barney (AdiSharabani) told the media that a lot of times, if one smartphone software crash or exit, they tend to think that a software failure or BUG, ​​do not think of cyber attacks.

This company is able to launch a denial of service attack or software for smart phones have been studied, they found that the results can be done on an iOS device.

An attacker could exploit a vulnerability in iOS system (also known as "Wi-Fi door"). 2013, Skycure company found that if a user has joined a Wi-Fi network, this time, the hacker could create a malicious same name Wi-Fi hotspots, then iOS device automatically connected to the Wi-Fi.

Salad Barney said that in the densely populated downtown area, it is easy to attack iOS devices. For example, a poor believers in New York's Times Square to create a Wi-Fi network called "AT & TWi-Fi" (AT & T is the US mobile operators), this time thousands of iPhone, will be automatically connected to the malicious Wi -Fi hotspot.

In this case, the denial of service attack scripts, hackers can attack any of the iPhone, let it shut down or crash.

In some test cases, Skycure company's experts, an iPhone success to restart and crashes frequently, became completely useless "brick."

Salad Barney said that if such a denial of service attack suffered, iPhone users is almost impossible to deal with.

The company noted that the best means to avoid such attacks is to carefully identify the various streets Wi-Fi hotspots, try to avoid even into the free Wi-Fi hotspot.

According to reports, Skycure companies have related issues, reported to Apple, if Apple has released a patch or remedy temporarily unclear.