Oct 17,2011

Apple releases OS X, iOS, Safari updates

Apple on Wednesday issued much-anticipated updates for its Mac OS X and iOS mobile operating system, adding support for its new iCloud service and fixing a bevy of security flaws in the process. The new mobile operating system, iOS 5, contains approximately 98 security fixes, according to the company's  release notes. The iOS update addresses a number of “noteworthy” issues, including flaws that caused users' Apple ID passwords to be logged in a plain text file, readable by applications, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in a blog post Wednesday. Additionally, the update removes DigiNotar from the list of trusted ...

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