Debra Littlejohn Shinder
Autumn season brings falling leaves and a new set patches, with
an unusually large security patch bunch coming from Apple, and a
regular monthly number of patches from other vendors.
Autumn is in the air, the trees are displaying their finest fall
colors, the weather is getting cooler, and many of us are already
getting psyched up for the holidays ahead. The seasons change, but
in the IT industry there's one constant: pumpkin patches
won't be the only kind of patches we'll be dealing with as
we head into this time of the year.
While we're in the produce section of the grocery store, try
not to upset the Apple cart because you might get buried under the
large number of security updates that have been released for
iProducts this month. We're used to seeing only perhaps five or
six actual updates, although often one will contain fixes for fifty
or more vulnerabilities. This time, Apple has put out a whopping
thirteen security patches as
