Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks

Apple issued an update for Mavericks, or OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and. 10.7) Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X. 6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system. In December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.”]

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