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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 18th, 2026: Apple Patches; Screen Sharing Security; Download More RAM

Apple Patches or iOS and macOS https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20iOS%20and%20macOS/33254 Screen Sharing Security https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Screen%20Sharing%20Security/33252 Download More RAM: Dismantling Windows Operating System Defenses with Mischievous Memory https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-collins.pdf My Upcoming Classes https://www.sans.org/profiles/dr-johannes-ullrich

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Apple Patches iOS and macOS, (Mon, Aug 17th)

Apple today released updates for iOS/iPadOS (26 and 18) and macOS 26. This update fixes 108 vulnerabilities and comes about two weeks after the much smaller macOS update that addressed the single screen-sharing vulnerability. This vulnerability did not affect iOS/iPadOS.

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Apple Screen Sharing Security, (Mon, Aug 17th)

About 20 years ago, with macOS 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced screen sharing. Apple did not invent a new protocol for screen sharing. Instead, it used the established VNC protocol. VNC is a pretty simple, unencrypted protocol using TCP port 5900. Historically, the protocol used a simple global password for authentication. Apple adapted the protocol for […]

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