Apple has released minor updates for its iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS operating systems running on the company’s smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches.<\/p>\n
iOS and iPadOS versions 14.4.2, and watchOS version 7.3.3 fix a security vulnerability within the WebKit browser engine used in Safari and other Apple web browsers.<\/p>\n
The bug – which was discovered by Clement Lecigne and Billy Leonard of Google Threat Analysis Group – has reportedly been actively exploited.<\/p>\n
According to Apple’s support page, it could result in a user’s device processing maliciously crafted web content which may lead to universal cross site scripting.<\/p>\n
This would allow a malicious actor to gather information from other webpages which a user has open on their device.<\/p>\n
Apple said the updates addressed the issue by improving management of object lifetimes.<\/p>\n
The company has recommended that all iPhone, iPad, and Apple watch users install these updates.<\/p>\n
The updates are available for iPhone 6s and later, iPad 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation).<\/p>\n
For older devices Apple has also released iOS and iPadOS versions 12.5.2, which fix the same issue.<\/p>\n
This will be for users of the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod touch 6th generation.<\/p>\n
To update to the latest available iOS or iPadOS version, users can navigate to Settings, select the General section and hit \u201cSoftware Update\u201d.<\/p>\n
This is the third security fix Apple has rolled out for its operating systems in the last two months.<\/p>\n
Towards the end of January, it launched iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4, which fixed two other security bugs.<\/p>\n
This included a vulnerability in the Kernel code which could allow a malicious application to elevate privileges on a user’s device.<\/p>\n
In addition, an issue had also been identified in the Safari browser\u2019s WebKit that could let a remote attacker cause arbitrary code execution.<\/p>\n
In early March, it rolled out another security patch<\/strong><\/a> for the WebKit engine in iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.<\/p>\n Apple is currently beta testing its next major update – iOS 14.5 – which is set for official release in South Africa\u2019s autumn.<\/p>\n Apple has released minor updates for its iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS operating systems to fix a security flaw which has been actively exploited.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":391099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,691,59327,1125,49055],"class_list":["post-391097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-ipados","tag-iphone","tag-security-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Apple fined R29.8 million for selling iPhones without chargers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"