Apple on Tuesday released security patches for iOS, OS X and an update for the Safari browser. The patches come less than a week after a ShmooCon presentation by Synack director of research Patrick Wardle revealed that Apple’s Gatekeeper security feature in OS X can be bypassed by an attacker with network-level access. The OS...

Apple has had two cracks at patching a vulnerability that allows malicious apps to bypass its OS X Gatekeeper security feature, and twice has taken a shortcut approach to the fix, said the researcher who reported the flaw. The latest measure to address this was released on Thursday and it appears Apple again took steps to...