In brief Apple on Monday released security patches for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and Safari to fix up a vulnerability that can be exploited by malicious web pages to run malware on victims' computers and gadgets.
Thus surfing to a dodgy page could be enough to hand over control of your iThing or Mac to miscreants. Apple thanks Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Alison Huffman of Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research for reporting the arbitrary code execution security flaw, CVE-2021-1844, which is present in WebKit, the browser engine used by various bits of Cupertino code.
As such, users should upgrade to Safari 14.0.3, macOS Big Sur 11.2.3, apple emits patches macos safari dodgy websites hijacking people gadgets
