If you’re feeling hesitant about installing Apple’s newly-released iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, or macOS Ventura 13.1 updates, you may want to look into them, as they apparently address more than 30 separate vulnerabilities. The updates address issues with everything from the Graphics Driver to WebKit to the kernel, along with vulnerabilities in Safari, Weather, Photos, and more. […]
The struggle against Meltdown and Spectre continues over at Intel. As such, Wired has a piece covering an elite team at Intel working to address the security vulnerabilities that affected millions of devices through Intel’s processor architecture. Per the article:
The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]
If you’re running either macOS 10.11 El Capitan or macOS 10.12 Sierra, you’re going to want to snag the current security update now. On Tuesday, Apple released Security Update 2018-001 Sierra and Security Update 2018-001 El Capitan, which addressed assorted security concerns as well as helped mitigate potential risks from the Meltdown and Spectre issues..
As tired as you are of hearing about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, Apple has just released something that could help with part of these. The company has released both a macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and iOS 11.2.2 supplemental update designed to help prevent Spectre attacks in the current Mac and iOS operating systems. Prior […]