Friday, April 15, 2016

Hackers managed to destroy the battery iPad and iPhone for Wi-Fi – a REGNUM

Washington, April 15, 2016, 09:08 – REGNUM skilled American company PacketSled managed by remote access disable Apple gadgets and their batteries. To this end, programmers have used homemade access point Wi-Fi, writes Daily Mail.

Patrick Kelly (Patrick Kelley) and Matt Harrigan (Matt Harrigan), dealing with cybersecurity in the IT-companies have created an access point Wi-Fi, which is determined by the device as a known network.

Because Apple devices tend to self-connect to wireless networks with familiar names, programmers were able to remotely connect to gadgets.

Then the system date devices not updated to iOS version 9.3, has been fixed at 1 January 1970, which led to their failure.

The fact that before it became known about the iPhone hacking method by the change date. When setting the device dateline 1 January 1970, and subsequent reboots, crashes and more gadget does not start. This problem exists for all iPhone, using the A7 processors and newer.

Apple company has eliminated a bug in iOS 9.3 operating system.

However, Kelly and Herriganu managed to find a way to remote hacking devices. The hackers said that they previously did not give publicized the results of his experiment, so as not to provoke the hackers to attack Apple devices.

If in the case of manual input iPhone date and iPad just hangs, then the remote access case device batteries heat up extreme temperatures, and broke down in 20 minutes.

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