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Apple Security Issues Allow Hackers to Control Your Devices — How to Update & Fix

  Although many people believe Apple products are immune to security issues, many of the tech giant’s devices are currently vulnerable to two security flaws that allow hackers to take full control of them. What’s the Apple Security Issue? The company has released an emergency security update to fix these vulnerabilities, which affect its iPhone, iPad, and Mac products, but Apple says it is aware they may have already been “actively exploited.” Devices affected include the iPhone 6s and later, all iPad Pro models, the iPad Air 2 and later, the iPad 5th generation and later, the iPad mini 4 and later, the iPod touch 7th generation, and Mac computers running macOS Monterey .  Security updates are available for all these devices and  users are strongly advised to install them. Apple did not disclose any information about how it learned of the issue, crediting anonymous researchers for the discovery. However, it did say that the vulnerabilities allow for the execution of arbit...