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• Apple zero days fixed – November 30, 2023

  Posted on November 30, 2023 at 14:11 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  End of the month zero days for Apple
  Apple pushed updates for 2 new zero-days that may have been actively exploited.

  CVE-2023-42916 (WebKit),
  CVE-2023-42917 (WebKit):
  – iOS & iPadOS 17.1.2
  – macOS Sonoma 14.1.2
  – Safari 17.1.2

  Link at the Apple site

  Apple CVE-2023-42916, CVE-2023-42917, iOS, macOS, macOS Sonoma, Patch Lady Posts, Safari

• M3 powers new MacBook Pros and iMac

  Posted on November 6, 2023 at 02:43 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Apple is infamous for making nebulous comparisons, but this time it has gone too far.

  Apple’s dark (Halloween) event a week ago was mildly disappointing. The company finally got around to announcing its previously expected M3 family of silicon and refreshed the MacBook Pro series as a result.

  The problem is that it wasn’t all that exciting. With a few exceptions, these were moves the company had to make, even though they will not generate the same sort of excitement as previous M1 and M2 announcements.

  The centerpiece of the event was silicon, a set of chips Apple calls “the most advanced chips ever built for a personal computer.”

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.45.0, 2023-11-06).

  Apple Apple M3, Apple News, Apple Silicon, iMac, MacBook, Newsletters, Qualcomm

• Apple security updates October 25, 2023

  Posted on October 25, 2023 at 15:13 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Apple is out with some security updates today:

  Like with any device – ensure you have a backup BEFORE installing updates.  No actively exploited bugs are included in this batch, but there are interesting bugs that are getting squashed.

  I’ll be adding this to the master list tonight and tracking any side effects.

  iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1	iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
  iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2	iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
  iOS 15.8 and iPadOS 15.8	iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation)
  macOS Sonoma 14.1	macOS Sonoma
  macOS Ventura 13.6.1	macOS Ventura
  macOS Monterey 12.7.1	macOS Monterey
  tvOS 17.1	Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K (all models)
  watchOS 10.1	Apple Watch Series 4 and later
  Safari 17.1	macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura

  Apple Master Patch List, Patch Lady Posts

• Apple zero days out – September 2023

  Posted on September 21, 2023 at 22:22 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  Apple has fixes for zero days that have been under attack. It appears most are triggered by a specially crafted web content.

  • CVE-2023-41991 – A certificate validation issue in the Security framework that could allow a malicious app to bypass signature validation.
  • CVE-2023-41992 – A security flaw in Kernel that could allow a local attacker to elevate their privileges.
  • CVE-2023-41993 – A WebKit flaw that could result in arbitrary code execution when processing specially crafted web content.

   

  iOS and iPadOS 17.0.1 – 3 bugs fixed
  iOS and iPadOS 16.7 – 3 bugs fixed
  watchOS 9.6.3 – 2 bugs fixed
  watchOS 10.0.1 – 2 bugs fixed
  macOS Ventura 13.6 – 3 bugs fixed
  macOS Monterey 12.7 – 1 bug fixed

  Mind you iOS 17 *just* came out the other day.

  These security vulnerabilities have been seen in attacks in the wild.

  Apple Patch Lady Posts

• Apple 2030

  Posted on September 18, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.38 • 2023-09-18

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Mother Nature deems Apple’s ambitious clean-energy goals worthy, albeit surprising.

  Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, in her starring role as Mother Nature in Apple’s fall event, stole the show. Apple goes Hollywood all the time in these events, but this was different.

  In a nicely done surprise skit, Mother Nature has come to Apple to audit its progress on meeting its green goals, specifically carbon neutrality. This alone was funny because all companies seem to have stated goals, but it’s hard to know whether any are being achieved. Mother Nature was skeptical to the point of assuming Apple was just blowing smoke, so to speak.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.38.0, 2023-09-18).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Apple Apple News, Apple Watch, iPhone, iPhone 15, Newsletters, Photography, USB-C

• Apple releases new security updates – June 21

  Posted on June 21, 2023 at 12:52 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  iOS and iPadOS 15.7.7 – 3 bugs fixed
  macOS Ventura 13.4.1 – 2 bugs fixed
  iOS and iPadOS 16.5.1 – 2 bugs fixed
  watchOS 9.5.2 – 1 bug fixed
  watchOS 8.8.1 – 1 bug fixed
  macOS Monterey 12.6.7 – 1 bug fixed

  Apple pushed updates for 3 new zero-days that may have been actively exploited.

  As we move to more and more of us using phones as our daily tool, so too are the attackers going after the phones with zero days

  Apple Patch Lady Posts

• The last shoe drops

  Posted on June 12, 2023 at 02:41 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Three major announcements from Apple during WWDC 2023 close the loop for Apple silicon.

  No, I’m not talking about Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s new “spatial” computer.

  The big news is that Apple’s product lineup no longer includes Macs with Intel silicon.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.24.0, 2023-06-12).

  Apple Apple M2, Apple News, Apple Silicon, Mac Pro, Mac Studio, Newsletters

• Apple security updates for May

  Posted on May 18, 2023 at 22:56 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Apple security updates out…

  macOS Ventura 13.4 – 51 bugs fixed
  iOS and iPadOS 16.5 – 39 bugs fixed
  watchOS 9.5 – 32 bugs fixed
  macOS Monterey 12.6.6 – 29 bugs fixed
  tvOS 16.5 – 28 bugs fixed
  macOS Big Sur 11.7.7 – 25 bugs fixed
  iOS and iPadOS 15.7.6 – 17 bugs fixed
  Safari 16.5 – 5 bugs fixed

  Three zero days fixed in this batch

  Apple Patch Lady Posts
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