Apple users put at risk by 3-week delay between OS X and iOS patches, researchers say<article>
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Apple exposed iOS users to security threats by taking three weeks longer to patch the same vulnerabilities in the mobile OS that it previously fixed in Safari on OS X, a former Apple security engineer said.</p><p>
Security researcher Kristin Paget, who left Apple at the end of January for a position at Tesla Motors, strongly criticized her former employer’s software patching practices in a
blog post Wednesday.</p><p>
The researcher pointed out that many of the vulnerabilities fixed in iOS 7.1.1, which was released by Apple Tuesday, were the same ones the company had patched in Safari 6.1.3 and 7.0.3 for OS X on April 1. Many of those vulnerabilities were located in WebKit, the Web rendering engine used by iOS, the Safari browser and other OS X applications, and most of them had been found by members of the Google Chrome security team.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2148000/apple-users-put-at-risk-by-3week-delay-between-os-x-and-ios-patches-researchers-say.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Apple users put at risk by 3-week delay between OS X and iOS patches, researchers say
