Malicious software often relies on corruption and other problems with memory. Latest iPhones come with new hardware-based protection that’s also likely to come in a future M-series chip. Here are the details.
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How Apple’s new CPU cores can guess which code to run, and which data to load from memory. How those speculative techniques can be exploited, and should we be worried?
Important security fixes, but no published CVE entries, according to Apple. But digging deeper was also unhelpful. Could it be GoFetch, or SLAP and FLOP?
The keyboard firmware update that flew in under the radar, and one of many fixes in Sonoma 14.2 tackle different Bluetooth vulnerabilities. How do they affect you?
Which versions of macOS get which types of security update, which have protection from XProtect Remediator, and can you still rely on Safari?
For the last 39 years, PostScript has been at the heart of the Mac, bringing desktop publishing, fonts, and the LaserWriter and other printers. It has been removed from Sonoma.
Apple has just released an urgent security update to macOS Ventura, bringing it to version 13.3.1. This addresses […]
Panic-ridden reports have spread to general and even local news media about last week’s security updates. Are they that unusual, special, or alarming?
Apple has just released a security update to macOS Monterey, bringing it to version 12.5.1. This fixes two […]
You may be surprised to learn that SIP or XProtect are disabled, that the SSV isn’t working, or that your security systems are way out of date.
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