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ISMG Editors’ Panel: Government Cybersecurity Challenges
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Dozens of critical vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPU and Bluetooth products; update ASAP
Intel issued 29 security alerts to correct some severe bios firmware flaws for Intel processors, as well as in its Bluetooth products, the NUC Mini PC line, and in its own security library. Jerry Bryant, Intel’s senior director of communications, says the company is investigating these issues internally through its own security teams, as well…

Apple patches exploit attributed to hacker-for-hire firm
Apple released an emergency software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect Apple devices without any user action. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the flaw allowed spyware from the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, NSO Group, to directly infect the iPhone of…

Apple CEO Tim Cook to Meet With U.S. President Joe Biden to Discuss Cybersecurity
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New zero-click iPhone exploit used to deploy NSO spyware
Digital threat researchers at Citizen Lab have uncovered a new zero-click iMessage exploit used to deploy NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on devices belonging to Bahraini activists. In total, nine Bahraini activists (including members of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Waad, Al Wefaq) had their iPhones hacked in a campaign partially orchestrated by a Pegasus operator linked with high confidence…