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The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, received a patch from Apple last week for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma. The vulnerability, with a severity rating of 7.1 out of 10, stems from a bug in the macOS screen sharing capability, which allows a remote party to view the screen and control the keyboard and mouse while a machine is turned on. A flaw in the “state management,” which keeps track of preceding events, user interactions, variables, and other system states, is the underlying cause. A video of the exploit in action can be found here. Details of CVE-2026-65400 became public at l
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation… Intel Macs running macOS 26 Tahoe can expect security and Safari patches for about two more years after the release of macOS 27 Golden Gate. Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia will receive one more year of updates. …
… All of today’s releases include minor bug fixes, and there are numerous security updates: more than 150 for macOS 26.6 . Apple also rolled out macOS 14.8.8 and macOS 15.7.8 for older devices, also focused on security fixes. …
… Mac windows are also getting a “tighter corner radius,” to address complaints about the way window resizing works in macOS 26 Tahoe. …
… Virtualization changes I may be more enthusiastic about Apple’s virtualization technology because virtual machines make writing sprawling macOS reviews much easier, but these improvements are also handy for developers testing across multiple macOS versions or anyone running an Arm version of Linux … …
… When screen sharing is turned on, the macOS firewall opens the port. …
… From 2020’s macOS 11 Big Sur to last year’s macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple released a total of six macOS releases that supported both architectures, though Tahoe’s support list included just a bare handful of Intel models. …