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by Paul Ducklin Betteridge’s Law of Headlines insists that any headline posed as a question can instantly be answered with a simple “No.” Apparently, the theory behind this witticism (it’s not actually a Law, nor yet a rule, nor even in fact anything more than a suggestion) is that if . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin The second-ever Apple Rapid Security Response just came out. That’s where the very latest versions of macOS, iOS and iPadOS get emergency patches that: Don’t take as long for Apple to build, test and publish as a full version update would. Don’t take as long to download . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin Right at the start of June 2023, well-known Russian cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky reported on a previously unknown strain of iPhone malware. Most notable about the original story was its strapline: Targeted attack on [Kaspersky] management with the Triangulation Trojan. Although the company ultimately said, “We’re confident that . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin Last week, we warned about the appearance of two critical zero-day bugs that were patched in the very latest versions of macOS (version 13, also known as Ventura), iOS (version 16), and iPadOS (version 16). Zero-days, as the name suggests, are security vulnerabilities that were found by . . . Read more
Not a zero-day, but important enough for a quick-fire patch to one system library…
Ventura hits the market with 112 patches, Catalina’s gone missing, and iPhones and iPads get a critical kernel-level zero-day patch…
Five updates, one upgrade, plus a zero-day. Patch your Macs, iPhones and iPads as soon as you can (again)…
Double 0-day exploits – one in WebKit (to break in) and the other in the kernel (to take over). Patch now!
There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip. Or at least between the TOC and the TOU…
You’ll find fixes for numerous kernel-level code execution holes, including an 0-day vulnerability in many (though not all) versions.