Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply the necessary Read More …

Hackers mostly targeted Microsoft, Google, Apple zero-days in 2022

Hackers continue to target zero-day vulnerabilities in malicious campaigns, with researchers reporting that 55 zero-days were actively exploited in 2022, most targeting Microsoft, Google, and Apple products. Most of these vulnerabilities (53 out of 55) enabled the attacker to either Read More …

Apple fixes actively exploited iOS zero-day on older iPhones, iPads

Apple has backported security patches addressing a remotely exploitable zero-day vulnerability to older iPhones and iPads. This bug is tracked as CVE-2022-42856, and it stems from a type confusion weakness in Apple’s Webkit web browser browsing engine. Read more… Source: Read More …

Diving into an Old Exploit Chain and Discovering 3 new SIP-Bypass Vulnerabilities

More than two years ago, a researcher, A2nkF, published the details of an interesting exploit chain on the Objective-See blog. He demonstrated the exploit chain from root privilege escalation to SIP-Bypass up to arbitrary kernel extension loading. After diving into the second Read More …

Apple should pay €6m to French data watchdog for tracking users without consent, says official

Apple tracked users without their consent and deserves to be fined €6 million, according to a top advisor to France’s data privacy watchdog. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) launched an investigation into Apple after a complaint Read More …

iPhone iOS 16.1.1 fixes two security vulnerabilities – time to update

Apple has released an update that protects users against two security vulnerabilities that could affect iPhones and iPads. The iOS 16.1.1 and iPadOS 16.1.1 software update comes two weeks after the release of iOS 16.1 for all iPhone and iPad Read More …