Hello and welcome to the Wednesday, April 2, 2025 edition of the Sands and then at Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Yesterday, Apple released updates well, for almost everything.

There were updates for iOS, iPad OS, Watch OS, TVOS, Mac OS, Vision OS, Safari, and Xcode.

The one thing that was missing from this lineup was WatchOS, but that actually just got released a couple of hours ago.

Overall, we got updates for 145 different vulnerabilities.

If I counted them correctly,

many of these vulnerabilities apply to multiple products

because they all sort of share the same kernel

and with that good amount of code. There are two interesting vulnerabilities

here I want to point out. These vulnerabilities were already exploited in the wild, so

so-called seraday vulnerabilities. They had been patched in the most recent versions of macOS

and iOS in the past, but now we

got patches for older versions of the operating system. There is a WebKit vulnerability

that was patched now for iOS iPad OS, and then there was a USB restriction vulnerability that was patched for Mac OS.

Again, these were already patched for the newer versions, but now this patch was also offered

for the older versions of MacOS.

Mentioned that you may have issues downloading the watch OS update,

at least that's my experience so far.

And in the D-Shield Slack, another user already mentioned some issues with that as well.

There is somebody to keep in mind that this is also a feature update.

And the iOS and macOS updates yesterday did enable some of Apple's AI features for Europe.

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