25 Mar 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 3/25/2024

Senators push to declassify TikTok briefings Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn are calling for TikTok briefings to be declassified so the government can “better educate the public on the need for urgent action.” The briefings come as support grows for a forced sale of TikTok due to national security concerns around ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the app. “We are deeply troubled by the information and concerns raised by the intelligence community…
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10 Apr 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 04/10/2023

Apple fixes two zero-days exploited to hack iPhones and Macs  Apple has released emergency security updates to address two new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks to compromise iPhones, Macs, and iPads. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited," the company said when describing the issues in security advisories published on Friday. The first security flaw (tracked as CVE-2023-28206) is an IOSurfaceAccelerator out-of-bounds write that could lead to corruption of data, a crash, or code execution.   …
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