09 September 2011

Apple Delays DigiNotar SSL Update, Partners 'Not Surprised' | #ssl #evssl #verisign


More than a week after a DigiNotar hack that prompted Google (NSDQ:GOOG), Mozilla andMicrosoft (NSDQ:MSFT) to blacklist hundreds of fraudulent secure socket layer certificates, Apple(NSDQ:AAPL) users are still without a security update protecting them from spoofs and man-in-the-middle attacks stemming from the bogus certificates.

But while alarming, Apple's failure to issue an update protecting its customers from hundreds of compromised SSL certificates issued by Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar is not entirely surprising given the company's longstanding history regarding security, security solution providers said Thursday.

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