Apple faced the wrath of legions of Mac users after it reportedly allowed a security certificate to expire, leaving customers unable to use some apps. The expiration appeared to impact a number of apps, including Acorn, Byword, Daisy Disk, Tweetbot and 1Password. It’s likely that the incident occurred due to problems with the security certificate management system. “The big firms, providers of applications and services, want to maintain control of the services and software they are selling,” noted Ian Trump, security lead at Logic Now.
Shit happens and these certificates do have issues at times. I remember some issue with web site security certificates at one time expiring. It should not happen but it does, and the compounding problem to this is nobody understands or is informed as to what happened. Unfortunately these certificates are part of securing everything these days thanks to hackers who want to find ways to infiltrate users and gain access to information. Sometimes the solutions are a problem too.
Apple faced the wrath of legions of Mac users after it reportedly allowed a security certificate to expire, leaving customers unable to use some apps. The expiration appeared to impact a number of apps, including Acorn, Byword, Daisy Disk, Tweetbot and 1Password. It's likely that the incident occurred due to problems with the security certificate management system.
The big firms, providers of applications and services, want to maintain control of the services and software they are selling," noted Ian Trump, security lead at Logic Now
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Apple Faces Twitter Storm Over Mac App Security Glitch
Posted by: David Jones November 14, 2015 06:00 AMApple faced the wrath of legions of Mac users after it reportedly allowed a security certificate to expire, leaving customers unable to use some apps. The expiration appeared to impact a number of apps, including Acorn, Byword, Daisy Disk, Tweetbot and 1Password. It’s likely that the incident occurred due to problems with the security certificate management system. “The big firms, providers of applications and services, want to maintain control of the services and software they are selling,” noted Ian Trump, security lead at Logic Now.