Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Apple fixes a security hole in OS X – Linformatique.org

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This is <- - Easy AdSense Pro V7.30!> Monday, in an emergency, Apple has made an update that fixes a security hole in OS X. The special feature of this update is that it is done automatically.

C ‘Google is a security expert who has discovered a critical security hole affecting the NTP network protocol. Given the severity of the fault, especially the simplicity of its operation, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning bulletin for the various impacted systems, including UNIX, including the Apple operating system.

While this flaw was made public last Friday, Apple responded on Monday by proposing a fix for its operating systems OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite.

Usually, OS X users should personally take action to make the upgrade of their system, but not this time. For the first time in its history, Apple has indeed deployed an automatically updated and transparent to users. As stated Bill Evans, spokesman for the Cupertino, “The update is transparent. Restart is not even necessary. “

While this is the importance of the threat that prompted Apple to do so, make the precise apple although, in Currently, no Mac has been identified as having been the target of hackers using the NTP flaw.

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