Apple will always let me know about something new in iTunes but won't e-mail me about a critical security update. I check it every day but then again I am paranoid.
The Apple user that the Mac OS is supposed to target is clueless about these threats and need to be informed.
'Apple will always let me know about something new in iTunes but won't e-mail me about a critical security update. I check it every day but then again I am paranoid.'
Why don't you just set Software Update to check daily and forget about it?
Security is the most important thing when it comes to IT security, and this is where Mac should have invested more money. Yes, OS X is more secure then XP -- but this doesn't give them right ignore all the security holes and not providing any support ontime.
Steve Jobs, neither heaven nor hell wants him...hell wants peace too..
Did you disable Software Update's automatic checking or something? Even the most clueless user will at least wonder what that bouncing blue globe in the Dock is for...
Apple put the BIND -P1 versions in a previous update. So the article's subtitle is wrong.
This latest security update includes the -P2 release. There is no security difference between the two, just a performance improvement. Anyone affected by the performance problems of the -P1 release has already found another solution, such as manually updating to a -P2 or beta release, from source code.
Seriously, who would run serious Internet-facing services on a Mac? How many NS boxes are out there that actually run a Mac OS? I'd be amazed if it cracks 1%.
Apple has a security email list available, "security-announce", among many other mailing lists available from apple.com, as soon as security updates are offered emails are posted on it. Apple is very tardy at security fixes, but let's criticize them for actual failings rather than imagined failings, OK?
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Hud Dunlap
Real irritated at Apple #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 12:10 GMT
Apple will always let me know about something new in iTunes but won't e-mail me about a critical security update. I check it every day but then again I am paranoid.
The Apple user that the Mac OS is supposed to target is clueless about these threats and need to be informed.
Ian Halstead
Not just security - other flaw fixes as well #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 12:10 GMT
Strictly speaking, 10.5.5 is much more than a security fix. Numerous bugs are squashed too. The Tiger update is security only.
Nice to see Apple so deft at getting the DNS flaw fixed. When did Gordon Brown join the board?
Mike Richards
@ Hud Dunlap #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 19:17 GMT
'Apple will always let me know about something new in iTunes but won't e-mail me about a critical security update. I check it every day but then again I am paranoid.'
Why don't you just set Software Update to check daily and forget about it?
John Fielder
Security fix on an Apple???? #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 19:17 GMT
I thought Apples didn't need security fixes because they were secure by design! Surely some mistake.
Bavenchkee Krycek
Apple is going down #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 19:17 GMT
Security is the most important thing when it comes to IT security, and this is where Mac should have invested more money. Yes, OS X is more secure then XP -- but this doesn't give them right ignore all the security holes and not providing any support ontime.
Steve Jobs, neither heaven nor hell wants him...hell wants peace too..
Anonymous Coward
@ Hud Dunlap #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 19:17 GMT
Did you disable Software Update's automatic checking or something? Even the most clueless user will at least wonder what that bouncing blue globe in the Dock is for...
Chris Buxton
The BIND fix was in a previous security update #
Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 19:58 GMT
Apple put the BIND -P1 versions in a previous update. So the article's subtitle is wrong.
This latest security update includes the -P2 release. There is no security difference between the two, just a performance improvement. Anyone affected by the performance problems of the -P1 release has already found another solution, such as manually updating to a -P2 or beta release, from source code.
Trix
What was the rush? #
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 07:29 GMT
Seriously, who would run serious Internet-facing services on a Mac? How many NS boxes are out there that actually run a Mac OS? I'd be amazed if it cracks 1%.
Anonymous Coward
@Bavenchkee Krycek #
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 07:29 GMT
"Security is the most important thing when it comes to IT security"
Tautology much?
Scott Mckenzie
Err... #
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 10:36 GMT
I'd hardly call an entirely new version of iTunes and an update to allow HD streaming from iTunes to Quicktime as "fixes" but hey ho...
@John Fielder - let me guess, you're a comedian by day?
Joshua Lee
apple has email bulletins #
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 12:02 GMT
@Hud Dunlap
Apple has a security email list available, "security-announce", among many other mailing lists available from apple.com, as soon as security updates are offered emails are posted on it. Apple is very tardy at security fixes, but let's criticize them for actual failings rather than imagined failings, OK?