Η Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), applied its first automatic security update for Mac, which corrected a security gap very important to await user approval.
Until now Apple it had avoid it to update automatically, despite the fact that it has this feature here and there two years.
The problem that was detected in NTP or Network Time Protocol was important, as well hackers have used this to his department software in the past to cause damage to other computer systems.
NTP is used in synchronization of clocks between systems computers and Internet worldwide.
The "hole" was discovered by Carnegie University's Software Engineering Institute Mellon. The weak point found in the software concerns dozens technology companies, among them and Apple.
Source: gr.pcmag.com
