[Utilizer]

Security threat for the apple crowd to consider...

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[Swordmaker]

Apple today released OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 which improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.

This update:

• Improves Wi-Fi reliability
  
• Improves the reliability of Handoff and AirDrop
  
• Fixes an issue that may cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect
  
• Fixes an issue that prevented Mail from deleting messages in an offline Exchange account
  
• Fixes an issue that prevented importing photos from an iPhone to a Mac using a USB cable
  
• Improves iCloud Photo Sharing for Live Photos

Enterprise content:

• Resolves an issue where reinstalling a configuration profile containing a certificate payload causes the certificates to be removed instead of updated
  
• Resolves an issue that caused multiple authentication prompts in Safari when using NTLM authentication
  
• Allows for deferred enablement when using the “fdesetup” command to enable FileVault with mobile accounts

For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple Security Updates.

[Scutter]

Just installed it on my iPad. The release notes mention a couple of (smallish) new features too - so it’s not just security patches.

[Swordmaker]

Security threat for the apple crowd to consider...

The author of this article mistakes "vulnerabilities" for "exploits." None of these "vulnerabilities ever rose to the level of an "exploitable" danger. At this point these become a possible danger only for those users who don't bother updating.

[usconservative]

I don't know what's worse: these so-called "security threats" or the fact that since iOS 8 every new release of iOS slows down my iPad Mini 2 more and more.

I'm not updating it anymore. It's almost useless now for anything beyond email and watching a video once in awhile. Even then, video's seldom if ever play back smoothly and pretty much every app on it takes a very long time to load. That's enough Apple for me.

Not buying into Apple's planned obsolescence anymore.