Why is it important: When news of the Hong Kong cyberattack spread this week, its effectiveness highlighted a mismatch in how Apple is pushing security updates for its various operating systems. Unsurprisingly, the latest OS versions are the first to receive security fixes, but previous versions, still in widespread use, may experience months of delays in installing the same fixes. Google researchers this week published report detailing what they described as a hacking campaign that began in Hong Kong, discovered in August. The hackers, which Google believes are government-backed, injected malware onto the websites of a Hong Kong pro-democracy group…