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 […]
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 […]
You can’t argue that WebKit’s been good for Apple and iOS in general. Apple’s WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a “triple tier virtual machine,” offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Per webkit.org, recent changes in Apple’s WebKit open source project (used by Safari on OS X and iOS, and to power […]