Tag: Apple
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple critical zero-day vulnerability
Apple has issued emergency security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2025-24200, which has been exploited in targeted and “extremely sophisticated” attacks. This vulnerability affects iPhone and iPad users, posing significant risks to user security. Review the details of...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple iOS zero-day vulnerability
Apple has released critical security updates to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24085. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory in full to learn what devices are affected and how you can mitigate your risk regarding this vulnerability....
Tech Time Warp: Apple releases the revolutionary iPod
Before the iPhone, there was the iPod. On Oct. 23, 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod to a small audience—nothing like the Apple release events of later years. But then, Apple was not the juggernaut in 2001 that it is...
Tech Time Warp: Bidding adieu to AppleTalk
Fifteen years ago, Apple quietly discontinued one of its innovations from the 1980s: the AppleTalk networking protocol. When Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), it ended support for its proprietary local area networking system, moving fully to TCP/IP-based...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New vulnerability in Apple M-chip
A new security exploit, GoFetch, was found in Apple’s M-chip architecture. It takes advantage of data memory-dependent prefetchers (DMPs) and could use the device as a new attack vector. Continue reading this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn how you can...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple releases patches for zero-day vulnerabilities
Apple has released more security patches after three zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and Safari. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild against several frameworks and systems of Apple products, making sixteen total zero-days...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Zero-day vulnerabilities found in Apple’s PassKit
Today’s Cybersecurity Threat Advisory involves Apple, who recently released critical updates for iPhone and Mac products after two zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in their PassKit framework via iMessage. Both vulnerabilities allow malicious actors to perform arbitrary code execution on devices...
Tech Time Warp: Woz dabbles in music festivals
In this week’s Tech Time Warp we discuss how we all know Steve Wozniak as the co-founder of Apple—but did you know Woz also dabbled in rock festivals? Forty-one years ago, while on hiatus from Apple after a plane crash,...
Tech Time Warp: Happy birthday to SHARE, the first computer user group
In this week’s edition of Tech Time Warp, we look at troubleshooting computer issues—or at least finding information about ideas to try—is far easier than it used to be. Simply type a description of the issue you’re experiencing into a...
Tech Time Warp: 80s viruses that hit the Apple II
Apple products have a reputation for being immune to malware, but that is not 100 percent true. In 1988, hackers released two viruses targeting ProDOS, the Apple II operating system. Admittedly, it took hackers five years to attack ProDOS —...
