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Apple pushes first ever automated security update to Mac users

December 23, 2014 publisher against-newly, apple, fix-critical, help-defend, identified-bugs, internet, manhattan, security-update, station-network, tips, under-scheduled

BOSTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc has pushed out its first-ever automated security update to Macintosh computers to help defend against newly identified bugs that security researchers have warned could enable hackers to gain remote control of machines. The company pushed out the software on Monday to fix critical security vulnerabilities in a component of its OS X operating system called the network time protocol, or NTP, according to Apple spokesman Bill Evans.NTP is used for synchronizing clocks on computer systems. ..