Apple iPhone Wi-Fi connection alert: Don’t connect to networks with these characters

Last month, a security researcher named Carl Schou found that if any iPhone user connects to a Wi-Fi network with the name “%p%s%s%s%s%n” then Wi-Fi may get disabled on the iPhone forever. It turns out that there are other Wi-Fi network names as well that can conk the Wi-Fi on your iPhone. Another Wi-Fi name has been found by the same security researcher and it is called “%secretclub%power”. If you come across any open Wi-Fi networks with this name, then do not connect as it can disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone. Even resetting network settings won’t help.

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