If you are on a Mac, Tuesday, December 23, you receive a notification indicating that the security update was successful. No need to check or clicking or restart.
This update is a response to a flaw in the network time protocol (network time protocol) operating systems OS X. The protocol NTP “ is used in particular to synchronize the clocks of computer systems ” says Le Figaro. This flaw, which was revealed by the Department of National Security and Carnegie Mellon University Friday 19 December, could allow hackers to remotely access the affected computers. Apple Applications were listed among many other as potentially vulnerable .
Generally, software vendors, including Apple, asking their users to do the updates manually.
But this approach assumes users actually do the update. And as many do not want to bother with this, many computers remain vulnerable to faults which corrections exist. Apple added these automatic updates there about two years, but this is the first time that the company decides to use this feature.
A spokesman for Apple, Bill Evans , told Reuters that “update causes no interruption … It does not even require a reboot.” He also added that Apple had used this feature because the company believed that the flaw was important, even if it has no evidence that the hackers have exploited.
It is difficult to know exactly how Apple has decided that it is this flaw that he would use the automatic update security. Especially that there has been some serious problems in Apple products in the past year. Apple then chose to let users make updates themselves.
On the other hand, the U2 incident showed how Apple should be very judicious when he performs automatic downloads .
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