Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apple iOS v8.0.2

Normally "Denial of Service" is a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic. With Apple´s iOS v8.0.2 your iPhone or iPad can be the next target of the attack.

The discovered vulnerability allows an attacker to crash the mobile device and force a system reboot. Not really cool as an average blackhat hacker attack because this will shut down the mobile device.

But if the attacker is a regime, agency or even the police that uses a denial of service attack on mobile phones this would be a serious critical issue. In a real world scenario the mobile phones in a specific area or user group could be targeted and forced to crash/reboot. This could have a strong impact on how to communicate.