Apple on Thursday released software updates to fix a slew of security issues in computers powered by its OS X operating system. Separately, a new version of the Opera Web browser is available that addresses a pair of serious security flaws. Apple’s seventh big bundle of updates so far this year plugs more than 40 security holes in the operating system and other software for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 desktops and server versions. Among the applications tweaked in this update are Apache, Finder, and ClamAV, the anti-virus software that ships with OS X server products. The updates are available via the built-in Software Update feature, or directly from Apple’s software downloads Web site. For whatever reason, Opera still does not offer an auto-update feature. Opera users can grab the newest iteration of the browser, version 9.6, from Opera’s Web site. In addition to the two security patches, [...]
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