Apple Patches ‘Actively Exploited’ iOS Security Flaw

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Apple late Wednesday pushed out an urgent iOS update with fixes for 11 documented security flaws and warned that one of the vulnerabilities “may have been actively exploited.”

In a barebones advisory, Apple acknowledged the zero-day took aim at a memory corruption issue in IOMobileFrameBuffer, an oft-targeted iOS kernel extension.

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Fewer-Than-Expected Log4j Attacks, but Mirai Joins the Fray

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Log4Shell, the critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability identified in early December 2021 in the Apache Log4j logging utility, hasn’t seen the mass exploitation that many expected, but an exploit for it is now part of the Mirai botnet’s arsenal, researchers warn.

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Cloud Security Provider Anitian Raises $55 Million

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Cloud security and compliance automation startup Anitian this week closed a $55 million Series B funding round led by Sageview Capital.

The new investment brings the total raised by Anitian $71 million and provides fresh capital to fuel ambitious expansion plans.

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