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Millions of Apple Applications Were Vulnerable to CocoaPods Attack
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CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code
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Flaws in Open-Source Software Exposed ‘Almost Every Apple Device’ to Hacking
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