Federal Agency Issues Security Warning for Apple Devices, Gives Three Weeks to Comply

This week, a federal agency sent a warning about a vulnerability that impacts iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, and other Apple devices, saying that it could lead to major security breaches. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said on Jan. 30 that the issue, marked as CVE-2022-48618, can bypass “pointer authentication.” It said that not fixing the bug could pose a “significant” risk to the U.S. “federal enterprise.” The bulletin also said that it issued a “binding operational directive” to issue updates to fix the problem, requiring federal civilian agencies to “remediate identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect” its “networks against active threats.”...