He noted the announcement last fall from five hackers who said they had discovered 55 Apple vulnerabilities, 11 of which were deemed critical, over a period of three months. “You could say Apple has had a bad year overall,” says Adam Gordon, a cybersecurity consultant who teaches cybersecurity classes for ITProTV. In early May, the company released emergency fixes for the operating systems behind iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads, and Mac computers to address a flaw related to the Safari web browser.Īnd the recent iOS 14.6 rollout featured a handful of non-critical security fixes.