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Apple offers $2 million for zero-click exploit chains

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Apple offers $2 million for zero-click exploit chains 2025-10-10 at 16:16 By Zeljka Zorz Apple bug bounty program’s categories are expanding and rewards are rising, and zero-click exploit chains may now earn researchers up to $2 million. “Our bonus system, providing additional rewards for Lockdown Mode bypasses and vulnerabilities discovered in beta software, can more […]

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Apple Bug Bounty Update: Top Payout $2 Million, $35 Million Paid to Date

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Apple Bug Bounty Update: Top Payout $2 Million, $35 Million Paid to Date 2025-10-10 at 12:17 By Eduard Kovacs Apple has announced significant updates to its bug bounty program, including new categories and target flags. The post Apple Bug Bounty Update: Top Payout $2 Million, $35 Million Paid to Date appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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October 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of a decade with Microsoft

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October 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of a decade with Microsoft 2025-10-10 at 09:33 By Help Net Security A lot of classic software is reaching end-of-life (EOL) this month. Windows 10, Office 2016 and Exchange Server 2016 have survived after nearly a decade of service. Not far behind, after six years in existence, comes

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Apple strengthens storage flexibility with new disk image formats

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Apple strengthens storage flexibility with new disk image formats 2025-10-03 at 08:04 By Sinisa Markovic Apple’s release of macOS 26 Tahoe introduced a new disk image format and updated an older one, both of which are drawing attention from system testers and forensic examiners. Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF) The Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

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Apple Rolls Out iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26 With Patches for Over 50 Vulnerabilities

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Apple Rolls Out iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26 With Patches for Over 50 Vulnerabilities 2025-09-16 at 11:54 By Ionut Arghire Apple has announced major mobile and desktop platform releases and addressed an exploited bug in older platforms. The post Apple Rolls Out iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26 With Patches for Over 50 Vulnerabilities appeared first

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Apple Sends Fresh Wave of Spyware Notifications to French Users

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Apple Sends Fresh Wave of Spyware Notifications to French Users 2025-09-12 at 15:22 By Ionut Arghire Apple this year sent at least four rounds of notifications to French users potentially targeted by commercial spyware. The post Apple Sends Fresh Wave of Spyware Notifications to French Users appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Apple Unveils iPhone Memory Protections to Combat Sophisticated Attacks

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Apple Unveils iPhone Memory Protections to Combat Sophisticated Attacks 2025-09-10 at 15:54 By Eduard Kovacs Apple’s new Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) brings always-on memory-safety protection covering key attack surfaces — including the kernel and over 70 userland processes. The post Apple Unveils iPhone Memory Protections to Combat Sophisticated Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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September 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The CVE matrix

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September 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: The CVE matrix 2025-09-05 at 10:18 By Help Net Security We work in an industry driven by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). Each security update released by myriad vendors addresses some flaw in software that could be exploited and those flaws that are publicly acknowledged are assigned a CVE designator

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Apple Seeks Researchers for 2026 iPhone Security Program

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Apple Seeks Researchers for 2026 iPhone Security Program 2025-09-04 at 18:23 By Eduard Kovacs Security researchers interested in participating in the 2026 Apple Security Research Device program can apply until October 31. The post Apple Seeks Researchers for 2026 iPhone Security Program appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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macOS vulnerability allowed Keychain and iOS app decryption without a password

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macOS vulnerability allowed Keychain and iOS app decryption without a password 2025-09-04 at 15:41 By Mirko Zorz Today at Nullcon Berlin, a researcher disclosed a macOS vulnerability that allowed attackers to read the memory of any process, even with System Integrity Protection (SIP) enabled. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-24204, stems from Apple mistakenly granting the

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Apple Patches Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

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Apple Patches Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks 2025-08-21 at 13:21 By Ionut Arghire Apple has rolled out iOS and macOS updates that resolve a zero-day vulnerability exploited in highly targeted attacks. The post Apple Patches Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React

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Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” (CVE-2025-43300)

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Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” (CVE-2025-43300) 2025-08-20 at 22:42 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has fixed yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) that has apparently been exploited as a zero-day “in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” About CVE-2025-43300 CVE-2025-43300 is an out-of-bounds write issue that could be triggered by a vulnerable

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iOS security features you should use to protect your privacy

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iOS security features you should use to protect your privacy 2025-08-20 at 07:11 By Sinisa Markovic iOS 18 comes with several privacy and security features that many iPhone users overlook. Knowing how to use them can help you protect your personal information and control which apps can access your data. USB Accessories Lock iOS 18

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Gabbard Says UK Scraps Demand for Apple to Give Backdoor Access to Data

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Gabbard Says UK Scraps Demand for Apple to Give Backdoor Access to Data 2025-08-19 at 15:59 By Associated Press Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any encrypted user data stored in the cloud. The post Gabbard Says UK Scraps Demand for Apple to Give Backdoor Access to Data appeared first on

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August 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Try, try, again

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August 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Try, try, again 2025-08-08 at 09:30 By Help Net Security July turned into a surprisingly busy month. It started slowly with a fairly ‘calm’ Patch Tuesday as I forecasted in my last blog. Although there were 130 new CVEs addressed across all the Microsoft releases, there was only one publicly

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Apple Patches Safari Vulnerability Flagged as Exploited Against Chrome

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Apple Patches Safari Vulnerability Flagged as Exploited Against Chrome 2025-07-30 at 11:54 By Ionut Arghire Tracked as CVE-2025-6558, the flaw was found in Chrome’s ANGLE and GPU components and was flagged as exploited by Google TAG. The post Apple Patches Safari Vulnerability Flagged as Exploited Against Chrome appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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June 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Second time is the charm?

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June 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Second time is the charm? 2025-06-06 at 09:57 By Help Net Security Microsoft has been busy releasing more out-of-band (OOB) patches than usual throughout May. The May Patch Tuesday release of updates was typical in number of vulnerabilities addressed with 41 in both Windows 10 and 11, and their associated

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Apple Patches Major Security Flaws in iOS, macOS Platforms

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Apple Patches Major Security Flaws in iOS, macOS Platforms 2025-05-12 at 22:16 By Ryan Naraine Apple rolls out iOS and macOS platform updates to fix serious security bugs that could be triggered simply by opening an image or video file. The post Apple Patches Major Security Flaws in iOS, macOS Platforms appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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May 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Panic, change, and hope

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May 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Panic, change, and hope 2025-05-09 at 09:11 By Help Net Security April was an event-filled month for cybersecurity. Patch Tuesday came to us quickly on April 8 – the earliest first Tuesday possible in a given month. We again saw large numbers of CVEs addressed with 84 in Windows 11

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Airplay-enabled devices open to attack via “AirBorne” vulnerabilities

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Airplay-enabled devices open to attack via “AirBorne” vulnerabilities 2025-04-30 at 16:31 By Zeljka Zorz Vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay Protocol, AirPlay Software Development Kits (SDKs), and the CarPlay Communication Plug-in could allow attackers to compromise AirPlay-enabled devices developed and sold by Apple and by other companies. “Because AirPlay is a fundamental piece of software for Apple

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