The Latest in IT Security

Apple Patches Include iOS 9.1 Update, Pangu Jailbreak Fix

22
Oct
2015

apple_patch

It was only three weeks ago that patched its core line of products and pushed its latest version of , El Capitan. Yet another wave of patches arrived Thursday however to address scores of vulnerabilities in OS X, , Safari, iTunes, and even the company’s smart watch operating system, watchOS.

With the iOS update, iOS 9.1, Apple effectively kills two vulnerabilities that a group of Chinese hackers, Pangu Team, were using to the operating system. The collective had been leveraging a heap based buffer overflow and a memory corruption issue to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges as part of its jailbreak tool.

Read More

Leave a reply


Categories

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024
WHITE PAPERS

Mission-Critical Broadband – Why Governments Should Partner with Commercial Operators:
Many governments embrace mobile network operator (MNO) networks as ...

ARA at Scale: How to Choose a Solution That Grows With Your Needs:
Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in...

The Multi-Model Database:
Part of the “new normal” where data and cloud applications are ...

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments