Why it matters: As news of a cyberattack in Hong Kong circulated this week, its effectiveness revealed a discrepancy in how Apple pushes security updates for its different operating systems. It’s not surprising that the latest OS versions get security patches first, but the immediately preceding versions, still in wide use, can face months-long delays for those same patches. This week, Google researchers [published](//blog.google/threat-analysis-group/analyzing-watering-hole-campaign-using-macos-exploits/) a report detailing what they described as a watering hole hacking campaign originating in Hong Kong discovered in August. Hackers, whom Google thinks were state-backed, implanted malware in the websites of a Hong Kong pro-democracy group,…