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Aug 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability WhatsApp has addressed a security vulnerability in its messaging apps for Apple iOS and macOS that it said may have been exploited in the wild in conjunction with a recently disclosed Apple flaw in targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177 (CVSS score: 8.0), relates to a case of insufficient authorization of linked device synchronization …

Monday, 25 August 2025 MacOS has shipped with a collection of “utility” apps since the prehistoric era of classic Mac OS. A good rule of thumb what makes an app a “utility” is that it’s a tool for doing something about your computer. Ever since Mac OS X 10.0, most of these apps have been neatly filed away in /Applications/Utilities/. …

Apple issues emergency update to fix zero-day exploit in iPhone and macOS  TechSpot All Apple users should update after company patches zero-day vulnerability in all platforms  Malwarebytes Apple releases iOS 18.6.2 for iPhone, here’s what’s new  9to5Mac Apple Rushes Out Fix for Zero-Day Attack on iPhones, Macs  PCMag You Need to Download iOS 18.6.2 Now to Patch This Zero-Day Exploit  CNET Source link

Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks. Logged as CVE-2025-43300, the bug is an out-of-bounds write issue in ImageIO, the component apps rely on to read and write standard image formats. Apple warned that the flaw could let miscreants hijack devices …

Apple Patches CVE-2025-43300 Zero-Day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Exploited in Targeted Attacks  The Hacker News Apple Rushes Out Fix for Zero-Day Attack on iPhones, Macs  PCMag Apple releases iOS 18.6.2 for iPhone, here’s what’s new  9to5Mac Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks  BleepingComputer Update your iPhone now to protect it from ‘extremely sophisticated’ attack  Mashable Source link

macOS Tahoe is a big update for Mac screensavers, with 15 brand new options coming. But there’s no need to wait to check them out, as all the new screensavers are available below. New screensavers in macOS Tahoe available now via Apple’s direct links The next major software update for Mac users is macOS Tahoe, which is currently in beta …

There’s a section on Apple’s macOS 26 preview site that reads “Calm in the brainstorm.” The tagline introduces the revamped version of Spotlight, but there’s another Mac experience that it’s more applicable to for me. From iPhone-only to every Apple device Rewind the clock back to December 2023 when Apple shipped iOS 17.2 with the brand new Journal app. iPhone …

macOS Tahoe includes 15 new aerial screen savers for the Mac, each panning over natural landscapes around the world. The new screen saver options were highlighted by Dylan McDonald, and we have provided still previews of all of them below. The new screen savers can also be set as wallpapers. To browse through all screen savers on macOS Tahoe, open …

On today’s developer beta release of macOS Tahoe 26, Apple replaced the old Macintosh HD icon, which depicted an actual hard disk drive, with a new SSD-looking icon. Here’s what it looks like. The old icon, a silver metal box with screws, vents, and a warning sticker, had a good run, considering Apple hasn’t shipped Macs with mechanical hard drives …

The iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, and macOS Sequoia 15.6 updates that Apple released yesterday address a major zero-day attack that targeted Chrome users, according to Bleeping Computer. Apple says that CVE-2025-6558 was a vulnerability in open source code that also affected Apple software. The flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code using HTML pages created for that purpose, …