Regarding Iphone Network Security

[9138988]

Hello, can an Iphone be remotely hacked if it connects to an untrusted network with malicious actors?, for example lets say there was some sort of snooping being done on a wifi network and a user connects to the wifi, could they remotely break into the Phone as of Ios 16.3 or is that simply impossible without some sort of crazy zero day?

Thanks for the input.

 

[ManuCH]

It's impossible without some sort of crazy zero day.

You keep posting stuff about being scared of people maliciously installing stuff on your phone, Siri showing up "hi" in the search, and now this. I think you should really chill. An always up-to-date iPhone is among the safest devices you can get nowadays. I have never heard of anyone having his iPhone genuinely hacked by a third party, unless they were some high value government-like target.

There are only risks if you jailbreak your iPhone, as you willingly disable a part of its security by doing so. If you don't do that, you are safe.

 

[addamas]

Only data sniffing is possible on untrusted network, but not installing something on iPhone.
But even sniffed data is hard to decrypt as most websites has https or apps are using their own encryption to server.

IMHO nothing to worry, you are stressing too much about security

 

[I7guy]

Hello, can an Iphone be remotely hacked if it connects to an untrusted network with malicious actors?, for example lets say there was some sort of snooping being done on a wifi network and a user connects to the wifi, could they remotely break into the Phone as of Ios 16.3 or is that simply impossible without some sort of crazy zero day?

Thanks for the input.

Are you asking if it’s a technically possible event or a low probability of happening to you. Anything certainly is possible but not a probable event to the average user.

 

[Ac1d 8urn]

I get it OP, I worry about this too sometimes. However, iOS cannot be controlled remotely and it's highly unlikely that your wifi traffic will be intercepted unless you're a very important person on some govt agency's list. I've never been remotely hacked but I did have an ex-roommate install spyware on my computer once, and ever since then I have refused to let anyone else touch my devices and I regularly do security check-ups. I felt like an idiot afterward b/c he did it while I was sitting right there, but this was before I'd spent years in IT learning about stuff like this. The way it happened was so stupid too- one night I needed the communal netflix password and he said something like "it's too long and complex to type in, I have it stored on a thumb drive". He plugged it in and a CMD window popped up then disappeared right away, and he was "in". I only figured out what happened when he started casually bringing up very specific things I'd only spoken about privately with my then-boyfriend over messenger, there was no way he would have known about those things otherwise.

But anyway, enough of my stories. I just wanted to say getting hacked a fair thing to worry about nowadays but it's highly unlikely to happen to average users. Unless you're frequently in the presence of bad actors with physical access to your devices or you piss off Mr. Robot, you're fine.

 

[papbot]

I’m not concerned about connecting to WiFi networks away from home, there is more than adequate security measures built into iOS devices as well as additional settings that can be enabled if you’re truly paranoid. But because there is some minute possibility of an issue, but mostly because many WiFi networks in stores are painfully slow, I almost always just use my cell connection. If the area I’m in has a slow or weak connection then I will check to see what WiFi networks are available. But if someone obsesses on possible, rare and extremely unlikely instances then it’s time to ditch the smart phone and get one of the new generation of flip phones that have been released without internet connectivity.