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 root certificates. The Dutch-based certificate authority, which since has gone bankrupt, recently issued hundreds of counterfeit SSL certificates, . On the desktop and server side, the Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and Snow Leopard (10.6) platforms received updates.
