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Oliver Haslam

Apple released a critical Magic Keyboard firmware update to fix a Bluetooth security flaw that could let someone snoop on your keystrokes

Apple Magic Keyboard.

Owners of Apple's Magic Keyboards have a new firmware update available to them, and that isn't something that happens every day. The new firmware won't grow an extra key or anything, and it in fact won't add any new functionality at all. There aren't even any new bug fixes here either, so those suffering from Bluetooth connection issues will probably continue to do so after this update is installed.

But that doesn't mean the update isn't a worthwhile one, because it absolutely is. That's because the new firmware addresses a security flaw relating to Bluetooth traffic and the way someone could potentially monitor that traffic between the keyboard itself and the target device, whether that's a Mac or another computer.

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