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From nakedsecurity.sophos.com - January 27, 2021 10:10 AM

Apple, rather unusually in today’s cybersecurity world, rarely announces that security fixes are on the way.

There’s no equivalent of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, which is a regular and predictable fixture in anyone’s cybersecurity calendar; there’s no “new version every fourth Tuesday” as there is with Firefox; there’s no predetermined quarterly schedule for patches as you get with Oracle’s products.

Apple’s approach is to keep everything under wraps until a working update is ready, and then to announce its patches at the same time that they are available for download:

Apple doesn’t disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are generally available.

Interestingly, Apple says that the official reason for doing it this way, rather than having a more regular process that you can plan around, is: “For the protection of our customers.

 

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