From: not.my.real@email.address

Big Bad Bob wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/13/apple_ios_macos_security_fixes/

"Apple on Monday issued security patches for its mobile and desktop
operating systems, and for its WebKit browser engine, to address two
security flaws, at least one of which was, it is said, used by
autocratic governments to spy on human rights advocates."

"One of the bugs, CVE-2021-30860, resides in Apple's CoreGraphics
framework. Reported by researchers at University of Toronto's Citizen
Lab, the bug consists of an integer overflow that allows a malicious PDF
file to achieve arbitrary code execution, allowing spyware and other malicious programs to run."

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My wife is an Apple fan. I had to flat-out tell her "UPDATE YOUR PHONE NOW OR BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN." I also updated her 2 Macs for her. Sigh. (*My* Macs are both so old that they don't even get updates. One is from 2007, the other is from 2002. Needless to say, they a