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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Apple unloads dozens of fixes for OS X

CNET:

Apple Computer has released what seems to be one of its larger security updates for Mac OS X, doling out fixes for 44 flaws.

Still, only a handful of the vulnerabilities are of major concern, according to security analysts. The package of fixes was released Monday.

"This one is a big update. I don't recall seeing as many updates as we see today," said Thomas Kristensen, Secunia's chief technology officer.

By comparison, Apple last May released an update for 20 vulnerabilities and in March distributed an update for a dozen flaws.

Secunia is rating the overall update as "highly critical."

You know, I unload on Microsoft when their monthly security fixes are egregious. Isn't anyone upset about this kind of thing? Certainly, no one is going to take the time to try and exploit any of these flaws, but it's sort of amazing there were this many issues to fix.

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