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Apple has warned iPhone and Mac users it's aware of security bugs in its software that are being actively exploited. First off, the iGiant thanked Google for spotting CVE-2021-30869 in macOS Catalina. It's a nasty flaw, as it's in the XNU kernel at the heart of Apple's operating systems including macOS and iOS. As Apple's advisory explains, "a malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges" by exploiting this security hole. Thus, malware running on a system ca...