Apple has quietly rolled out a groundbreaking security update mechanism, deploying its first-ever Background Security Improvements patch to fix a newly discovered vulnerability in its browser engine, WebKit. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20643, affects iPhones, iPads, and Macs and could ...

Google on Monday disclosed that a high-severity security flaw impacting an open-source Qualcomm component used in Android devices has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21385 (CVSS score: 7.8), a buffer over-read in the Graphics component. “Memory corruption when adding ...

A Critical Patch, a Brief Outage — and Bigger Questions for Internet Resilience On the morning of December 5, 2025, at precisely 08:47 UTC, a substantial portion of Cloudflare’s global network faltered. Within minutes, thousands of websites — including major ...