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Entries by Sean OConnell Public (117)

Sunday
Jan062013

Condition Remains GREEN

Turktrust had issued subordinate certificates back in August, 2012, which inherited trust from their root certificates. This resulted in other fraudulate certificates being created including for *.google.com. While it does appear that this is the result of humman error users should insure these certificates are no longer trusted.

Google had issued an update to Chrome. Mac users should turn on Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and Certificate Revocation List (CRL). Mac users can also manage certificates and trust via the Keychain.app. 

Wednesday
Jul252012

Condition Remains GREEN

Apple has released a host of updates including Safari, iWork and Remote Desktop.

  1. iWork 9.2 Update. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5248 
  2. Apple Remote Desktop Admin 3.6. 
  3. Safari 6.0, Apple-SA-2012-07-25-1.

Apple also has released Mountain Lion to the Mac APP Store. Due to the high demand for Mountain Lion, users may get an error message from the Mac APP store such as "The product distribution file could not be verified...". You should wait a couple of hours and then try again. On the rare event that problem persist you can take the following steps:

  1. Open the Console.APP and search for FRPurchaseManager.
  2. You will see an errors, look for the "The product distribution file could not be verified..." 
  3. Open that error, you will see more errors, one stating that the "URL was not found on the server."
  4. Find the directory path of the downloaded file/folder.
  5. Example:var/folders/0x/kp18vxxx97nn2b5czzwxxxhxx9xxxx00gs/C/com.apple.appstore/5xxx38xxxxxx2/preflight.pfpk
  6. Select <Shift><COMMAND><G> or Go>Go To Folder
  7. Enter /var/folders
  8. Trash the folder that Mountain Lion was downloading to. (See step five for directory name, it usually will have a name such as "0c".)
  9. Quit out of Mac App Store.
  10. Reopen Mac App Store.
  11. Try purchase again.