Be careful if you connect to a Wi-Fi network, public or not, including the %sign, you could undermine the Wi-Fi of your iPhone.A security researcher discovered that this made the Wi-Fi connection of the device ineffective and forced certain manipulations to find normal operation.

Watch out for your Wi-Fi connection with public access points // Source: Frandroid

The quest for the Wi-Fi network has become a daily activity.At home, office, restaurants or even stations, finding a stable and powerful connection for our computer, tablet or smartphone is now a reflex.But a reflex that is never without risk.

We keep repeating the importance of never connecting to a public Wi-Fi network without security guarantee or the support of a VPN.And we now discover that we must also pay attention to the name of the network to which you try to connect.

A safety researcher named Carl Schou recently reported two connection concerns to Wi-Fi access points for iPhone holders, spotted the Mac4ever site.Some names can completely deactivate the Wi-Fi of your device.

The obligation to reset the whole iPhone

In the space of two weeks, the researcher thus spotted two networks which made his iPhone inoperative.Their particularity: the two included the " %" sign in their name. Le premier SSID %p%s%s%s%s%n avait désactivé le Wi-Fi de l’iPhone, nécessitant de réinitialiser les paramètres réseaux de l’appareil pour qu’il puisse de nouveau se connecter normalement.

On the other hand, his second attempt on the %SecretClub %Power network has proven more complicated for his smartphone.Carl Schou then had to completely reset his iPhone to be able to use his Wi-Fi connection.All iPhone seems to be affected by this concern.

On Twitter, he returned to the problems encountered and explained that Apple had not provided him with explanations.He finally found a lasting solution by manually managing a previous backup in order to delete malicious information on the SSID.Much more than the names of these networks, it would seem that the problem comes from the character included in the name.It has already happened in the past that some characters, in SMS, network names or other, undermine the iPhone.

Apple then used a system update to correct them.While waiting for this to be the case, avoid connecting to any network with non -alphabetical characters.

Even if our mobile packages are becoming more and more generous in data, everyone was one day broken from the Internet and had to be satisfied with public and/or open WiFi.That ... Read more

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