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    Apple deploys security update for Mac OS X

    Apple, like Microsoft, end the year with a massive security update for its flagship operating system. The update fixes over 40 vulnerabilities, several of which are rated as critical.
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    Re: Apple deploys security update for Mac OS X

    The question is of course, are there only 40 critical ones in the pack, or are they trying to downplay dangerous vunerabilities?

    Its always a trade off between keeping your users secure, and stopping them from working because you've got to do a sodding update, but in the last week they really have come under flak for what appears, and is very much in keeping with the company is under rating the threat. This is dangerous, far more so than sitting on the release (and bribing/convinsing the researchers not to disclose) as proof of concept code is out there for them.

    I've long moaned that Apple actually do sod all to promot security, to the point i'd accuse them of been a windows 98 erea microsoft in the way they deal with threats. But then the OpenBSD 'luddite' approche is hardly a good one either, as it tends to rely on the idea of only using mature code (not to saying their auditing ideas aren't good)
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