Apple's automatically-installing update saved consumers this time, but it could backfire in the future

Apple has automatically pushed an update to its desktop computers meant to fix a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) which keeps the clocks of Internet-connected devices in sync with each other. The vulnerability, which was discovered by Google researchers and disclosed earlier this month, could have let attackers gain remote access to these devices. This is the first time Apple has pushed a security update that consumers didn’t have to choose […]