{"id":7856,"date":"2021-07-05T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:53:56","slug":"another-iphone-wi-fi-bug-was-discovered-by-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/another-iphone-wi-fi-bug-was-discovered-by-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Another iPhone Wi-Fi Bug Was Discovered By Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks after the original iPhone Wi-Fi bug was found and finally fixed by security researcher Carl Schou, another more serious bug, which triggers when the device enters a series of malicious public Wi-Fi hotspots with the network name &#8220;%p%s%s%s%s%n,&#8221; was rediscovered by the same researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the previously fixed and the new bugs are related, as both exploit a string format encoding error somewhere in the iOS network stack, users are advised to simply avoid connecting to Wi-Fi networks that have percent icons in their name while waiting for the software update that will fix the problem from Apple.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/07\/04\/wifi-iphone-disable-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in 9to5Mac<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another iPhone Wi-Fi bug that triggers devices when it enters hotspots with specific name was found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}