Category Archives: Patches

Apple Aperture 1.5.3

Apple released Aperture 1.5.3. It’s available through Software Update or from the Apple website here. You’ll need a Apple ID and your Aperture serial number to download from the Aperture site. The Aperture “update” download is actually a download of the full program (the same for the push through software update).
The software update screen pretty [...]

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Apple Security Update For Airport Extreme

Apple released a firmware update for their Airport Extreme Base Station with 802.11n. The Apple bulletin recommends that Airport Base Station update 2007-001 as it includes an update to the Airport Utility.

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It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft released four security patches that they rated critical. They are…
MS07-018 is for Content Management server and doesn’t affect it’s desktop OS’s.
MS07-019 is for a vulnerability in Universal Plug and Play. It only affects Windows XP SP2 and the 64-bit version of Windows XP. Note that MS doesn’t support WinXP SP1 and the fact that [...]

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More Security Patches (OS X and Java on Windows)

My PCs got security patches for Java and Mac OS X this past week.
My Windows machine got update 10 straight through the Java Runtime update tool. The release notes are here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html.
My Macs got two OS security updates and an update to iChat.
Security Update 2006-07 is described here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829.
Security Update 2006-08 is described here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304916.
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Another Security Update - Mac OS X Security Update 2006-008

A second security update this week. This time for Mac OX X. Apple release Security Update 2006-008 which “improves security” of Quartz Composer and QuickTime for Java. The info on the update can be found at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.
It’s a small (2.7MB for PPC) download but it requires a restart.

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Firefox 2 Updated

Firefox was updated on my Windows machine a little while ago. It’s version 2.0.0.1 and includes 8 security updates, five of which are listed as critical. Critical means code can be run or program’s installed with normal browsing. Here’s a list of what’s included: (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.1)
The update hasn’t shown up on my Mac yet but it [...]

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