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Apple Neglects to Renew SSL Certificate Causing Issues With OS X Software Update

Posted May 25, 2014 at 6:11pm by iClarified · 10607 views
Apple appears to have forgotten to renew a SSL certificate leading to issues for users trying to upgrade OS X, reports MacRumors.

Users are presented with the following error when attempting a Software Update:

An Error has occurred
The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be "swscan.apple.com" which could put you confidential information at risk.


Swscan.apple.com is a server used by Apple by for Software Update. A certificate lookup indicates that it expired on May 24th at 23:59:59 GMT.

Presumably, the issue should be fixed shortly; however, for now you can manually download updates from the link below...

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