{"id":427,"date":"2021-09-14T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/?p=427"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:56:30","slug":"urgent-apple-security-update-for-mac-iphone-ipad-and-watch-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/urgent-apple-security-update-for-mac-iphone-ipad-and-watch-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Apple security update for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Watch users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT212807\">has released<\/a> an urgent security update for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Watch users after researchers discovered a vulnerability that gives attackers full access to a device&#8217;s camera, microphone, messages, texts, emails, calls and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerability affects all iPhones with iOS versions prior to 14.8, all Mac computers with operating system versions prior to macOS Big Sur 11.6, Security Update 2021-005 Catalina and all Apple Watches prior to watchOS 7.6.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT212807\">We strongly encourage you to apply this update immediately, if applicable.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn more about this recent security threat and how to protect yourself:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Read more about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/apple-releases-update-fixing-nso-spyware-vulnerability-affecting-macs-iphones-ipads-and-watches\/\"> the recent security threat<\/a><\/li><li>Register for a <a href=\"https:\/\/pdc.wfu.edu\/events\/2999\/\">Computer and Information Security Essentials Class<\/a><\/li><li>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/services\/knowbe4\/\">KnowBe4, our cybersecurity and phishing training platform<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released an urgent security update for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Watch users after researchers discovered a vulnerability that gives attackers full access to a device&#8217;s camera, microphone, messages, texts, emails, calls and more. We strongly recommend applying this update, if applicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,8,6,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}