OS X Patch Catch-Up
Summary: Apple released its seventh major OS X update of the year, addressing at least 130 security vulnerabilities, including 55 flaws in Adobe Flash Player and fixes for QuickTime, Time Machine and Safari RSS. The update also covers a flaw that Apple had patched on the iPhone earlier in the year but left unaddressed on OS X 10.5/Leopard until now, and the Leopard client version of Security Update 2010-007 is more than 240 MB.
Bottom line: The patch reportedly broke PGP whole-disk encryption badly enough that recovery required booting from a CD and running terminal commands, so a security update meant to close 130 holes can take encrypted Macs offline until someone works through the fix.
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