Apple Patches New macOS, iOS Zero-Days

Apple on Wednesday rolled out emergency patches for a pair of already exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its flagship macOS and iOS platforms.

Apple confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of the vulnerabilities in separate advisories warning about code execution flaws in fully patched iPhone, iPad and macOS devices.

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Quarterly Security Patches Released for Splunk Enterprise

Splunk this week announced the release of a new set of quarterly patches, to address multiple vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise.

The most important of the bugs – based on its severity rating – is a high-severity TLS certificate validation issue in the Ingest Actions user interface.

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Fugitive Arrested After 3 Years on Charges Related to BEC Scheme

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the arrest of Njuh Valentine Fombe, who was wanted for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.

Indicted in 2019, Fombe was a fugitive for three years until he was arrested on August 6. He is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and with aggravated identity theft.

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