IOS 5.0 security fix or patch?

How can you track or determine if Apple is releasing an update to address vulnerabilities? IOS 5.0 and the smart cover vulnerability is going to have us disable the smart cover Enterprise wide to mitigate the risk. I would like to be able to advertise to my user community when I can patch this problem and enable the smart cover again.

Sorry, but you can't. Apple almost never pre-announces updates or security patches.
Regards.

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