{"id":23097,"date":"2022-08-18T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T03:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23097"},"modified":"2022-08-18T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T03:26:23","slug":"apple-discloses-serious-security-vulnerabilities-for-iphones-ipads-and-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/08\/18\/apple-discloses-serious-security-vulnerabilities-for-iphones-ipads-and-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple discloses serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs, which could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple added that it is &#8220;aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Security experts have advised users to urgently update affected devices &#8211; the iPhone 6S and later models, newer iPads, and Mac computers running macOS Monterey.<\/p>\n<p>It also impacts some iPod models.<\/p>\n<p>In a security update on its support page, Apple said one of the flaws means a malicious application &#8220;may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges&#8221; &#8211; which TechCrunch describes as meaning full access to the device.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch reported that the other &#8211; a WebKit bug &#8211; could be exploited if a vulnerable device accessed or processed &#8220;maliciously crafted web content [that] may lead to arbitrary code execution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The warning to users comes ahead of its traditional September launch of the latest iPhone &#8211; expected this year to be named the iPhone 14.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/apple-discloses-serious-security-vulnerabilities-for-iphones-ipads-and-macs-12676245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Apple has disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs, which could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of devices. Apple added that it is &#8220;aware of a report that this issue may <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/08\/18\/apple-discloses-serious-security-vulnerabilities-for-iphones-ipads-and-macs\/\" title=\"Apple discloses serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23100,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions\/23100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}