Following up on yesterday’s story about how Apple pushed major macOS, iOS, and iPadOS security updates out the door to cover a pair of vulnerabilities, it appears that the vulnerabilities are already being exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities, credited to Google’s TAG (Threat Analysis Group), are being actively exploited on Intel-based macOS systems, Apple […]
Month: November 2024
As nifty as Apple’s M4 chip is, sometimes there’s still a kink or two to work out. Owners of Apple’s newest M4-equipped Macs have noticed that they are unable to run older versions of macOS in a virtual machine given a strange booting issue. Running a virtual machine with older generations of macOS can have […]
You might want to snag these updates. Apple on Tuesday released its iOS 18.1.1, iPadOS 18.1.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 updates. The patches address JavaScriptCore and WebKit vulnerabilities that Apple says have been actively exploited on some devices. With the JavaScriptCore vulnerability, processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to arbitrary code execution. The WebKit […]
Apple has apparently acknowledged the issue and offered a solution to fix a scary bug in its Notes program that caused entered data to disappear. The company issued a new set of terms and conditions that appeared via a device pop-up window. That happened a couple of weeks ago for iCloud terms, and while the […]
You’re going to have to upgrade your devices or find a workaround eventually. Beginning in December, Apple will require users performing a backup over iCloud to be running iOS 9 or later. Per an email to its customers, Apple stated that new backups for iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier will no longer […]