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Apple forgets to renew SSL certificates

by jc / May 26, 2014 3:39 PM EDT

This news dominated all social media today, where it is speculated that Apple forgot to renew the SSL certificates when trying to update the OS X operating system.

It seems that many users have been experiencing this problem, with many of them encountering an error message when trying to perform a software update.

The error referred to the invalidity of the security certificate of the server the user was trying to connect to, which in this case was named Swscan.apple.com.

And for many of those who have also experienced this same problem, we would like to inform you that Swscan.apple.com is nothing more than a

The server was used by Apple for a software update fee. The certificate also indicates that it expired on May 24th at 23:59:59 GMT.

And indeed, everything that happened was due to a simple oversight on Apple's part, since the problem has already been solved without further consequences.

However, to the relief of many users, it is now possible to download these updates manually from Apple's official support website without encountering any errors.

Here are more details: OS X Update


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