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Apple Releases 'Highly Critical' Patch

Posted by Zonk on from the fill-your-bites-back-in dept.

Toothpick writes "Apple Insider reports that a new security update is available for download from Apple. This addresses issues identified in sudo, Safari, and OpenSSL among others. The gory details are, predictably, available on the Apple Info site." Commentary from ZDNet is also available.

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  1. How is this news? by Paul+Bristow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So called highly critical patch installed itself yesterday on my iBook.

    For those of us who need it, Apple update takes care of it.

    If there was an exploit that meant we should click on "Software Update" instead of waiting for it to cycle round, great but this is just Apple-bashing. Is this a microsofty going "look! other OS's have security updates too" while there are many many exploits in the wild for them?

        Anyway it's a day late. This is "internet time", if you can remember that far back :-)

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    - Paul
  2. Re:helpful list of Apple's recent security updates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ummmmmm... when did Apple change their domain to "get.sent.to" ? Don't support someone with clickthrough advertising, just go directly to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

  3. Re:Highly Critical? Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Highly critical? Why didn't my highly vulnerable mac get attacked for the last five years?

    You don't understand the Windows vs. Professional OS sequence for vulnerabilities:

    Professional OS:
    -Vulnerability found by white hat security world
    -OS Vendor informed
    -OS Vendor works on patch that both fixes vulnerability and doesn't make things worse
    -Vendor tests patch thoroughly
    -Vendor releases patch; world as a whole, including script kiddies, first hear about vulnerability
    -Users, trusting vendor's track record, install patch (see "doesn't make things worse" above)
    -Any exploit is too little, too late.

    Microsoft:
    -Vulnerability found
    -Microsoft informed
    -Nature of vulnerability leaks out to world as a whole
    -Microsoft shoves thumb up bum, waits 6 months
    -Exploit released
    -Microsoft shoves second thumb up bum, wonders about apparent discomfort
    -Microsoft eventually releases patch, may or may not make things better or worse
    -Frustrated people buy Macintoshes

    Simple, isn't it?

  4. These are serious.. but kudos for fixing them. by dreamer-of-rules · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My brother recently switched to Apple.. We were IM'ing about this update and he said..

    "one thing i looove about this thing is that i'm never afraid to update like in windows. i'm not scared that it will be worse off"

    Trust is important. How many people haven't updated Windows to SP2 still??

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    Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts.
  5. Re:Highly Critical? Huh? -- Explained by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just don't understand what they mean by critical. I installed this patch and it immediately started complaining about all the junk on my desktop. Then it started berating me for my lack of sensible folder organization. It criticized my choice of web browsers. I turned on iTunes to drown it out and it started giving me a hard time about my musical choices. By the time it started in on my clothes I was sick of it, so I uninstalled the patch. I'll take the data insecurity so as not to put up with the emotional insecurity, but YMMV.