Apple criticised as it patches 50 flaws

Apple's recently released patch which addresses Mac OS X’s implementation of Sun Microsystem’s Java as well as a problem with the web browser Safari has been criticized by one of the researchers who found the flaw, Brian Mastenbrook, wasn’t happy with how Apple reacted when he reported the problem back in July of last year.

On his blog he claimed that six months passed without a fix before he decided to post a warning on his blog last month. He said: “So why did it take seven months for Apple to deliver a fix? What does this say about Apple’s commitment to protecting the security of these users? Neither I nor anyone else who is not at Apple can answer these questions for certain.”