Time To Protect Your Apple Devices: New Updates for iOS, MacOS And iPadOS

Apple: Do you have an iPhone, an iPad, an iMac or MacBook? If you have one or more Apple devices, you might be interested to know that those in Cupertino have released security updates for their devices’ operating systems that correct various security flaws.

A malicious application, audio file, or image can execute arbitrary code, so it’s best to Apple device updated to the latest version.

Apple Security Update

The company has released updates to fix bugs in previous versions

mac

macOS Big Sur 11.6.2

macOS Catalina 2021-008

macOS Monterey 12.1

iPhone

iOS 15.2

iPad

iPad 15.2

According to Apple, these updates fix bugs, issues, and security flaws, such as:

A person with physical access to an iOS device can access contacts from the lock screen and access saved passwords without authentication.
An attacker in a privileged network position could execute malicious code.
A remote attacker could cause the program to close unexpectedly.
A device can be passively tracked via Airport’s BSSID (Access Point ID).
A malicious application can identify which other applications the user has installed, bypass Gatekeeper checks, and so on.
A FaceTime call can unexpectedly leak sensitive user information via Live Photos metadata.

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