{"id":428,"date":"2025-02-10T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-02-10T21:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:49:50","slug":"important-macos-updates-15-3-and-now-15-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Important: MacOS Updates 15.3 and now 15.3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-398\" src=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sequoia-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Color rays with Sequoia text\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sequoia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sequoia-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sequoia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sequoia-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sequoia.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So Apple released 15.3 a week ago, which one of its most important fixes was for its firewall issue with Crowdstrike&#8217;s Falcon firewall in enterprise\/institution\/business customers installations.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine not being able to connect to Airplay after finding the device on your network, then connecting, and entering the 4 digit code and &#8230; and&#8230; nothing! Well, the tempfix was to drop your pants, aka, open the firewall. The 15.3 update fixed what the last 15.2 update dorfed up.<\/p>\n<p>And today, 2\/10\/2025 or 2025\/10\/2 or 10\/2\/2025 aka Feb 10.2025, Apple released 15.3.1, along with Watch OS 11.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1 to block the Restricted USB Mode Attack. Apple never likes to detail any &#8220;security&#8221; patches but they did say,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I updated my devices. Probably good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of rumors&#8230;maybe soon, SE 4thGen ?\u00a0 IF bigger screen&#8230; time to upgrade!Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Apple released 15.3 a week ago, which one of its most important fixes was for its firewall issue with Crowdstrike&#8217;s Falcon firewall in enterprise\/institution\/business customers installations. Imagine not being able to connect to Airplay after finding the device on your network, then connecting, and entering the 4 digit code and &#8230; and&#8230; nothing! Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Important: MacOS Updates 15.3 and now 15.3.1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}