indian computer emergency response team certin recently issued a warning for apple watch users the government body has marked the security risk as high severity and has mentioned that multiple vulnerabilities in the watch that may make apple watch users an easy target for hackers for those unintended certin is a nodal agency under the ministry of electronics and information technology the government body is responsible for highlighting bugs and cybersecurity threats like phishing and hacking what government has saidcertin has noted that these vulnerabilities exist in apple watch due to buffer overflow in appleavd component an authorization issue in applemobilefileinterity component outofbounds write in audio icu and webkit component type confusion in multitouchcomponent multiple outofbounds write and memory corruption in gpu drivers component outofbounds read in kernel component and memory initialization in libxml2 component the warning also mentions that remote hackers can exploit these vulnerabilities and execute arbitrary code and bypass security restrictions on the targeted device by sending a speciallycrafted request who are affectedaccording to the warning page everyone who has an apple watch running older than watchos 87 are affected what users can docertin has advised apple watch users to apply the latest security patch for the device that address the vulnerabilities thankfully apple has already rolled out the watchos 87 update which includes security updates and address the listed vulnerabilitieshow to update apple watchmake sure that your watch is connected to wifion your watch open the settings apptap general software updatetap install if a software update is available and follow the onscreen instructions