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iPhone exploit gave hackers control over WiFi without your input – Engadget
Apple recently fixed an iOS exploit that let intruders control your phone over WiFi without any interaction on your part.
It wouldn’t have been trivial to stage an attack, but it wouldn’t have been difficult, either. Beer used a laptop, a Raspberry Pi 4 and a readily available Netgear WiFi adapter, and he was working from home during a pandemic lockdown. The stealthiness was the greater concern. A perpetrator could have swiped personal data while leaving you completely oblivious, at least as long as there was a reasonably close hiding place.
Notice the use of the past tense, however. Apple fixed the flaw in iOS 13.3.1,…
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