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Apple releases OS X NTP Security Update; Mac users advised to install ASAP
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| December 22, 2014
Posted on 12/23/2014 12:29:16 AM PST by Swordmaker
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...
Important Network Time Protocol Security Update for OS X Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite now available. Use Software update PING!
Apple OS X Network Time Protocol Security Update Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
12/23/2014 12:32:22 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
Thanks. Updated. Interested in knowing the extended issues involved with this. I’m sure the Fud Packers (FP) will tell us. BTTT.
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posted on
12/23/2014 12:49:25 AM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Swordmaker
Thanks for posting this. I had it updated within a few minutes of seeing this.
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posted on
12/23/2014 1:44:50 AM PST
by
Mark17
(So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my savior, this stranger of Galilee)
NTP was recently a pain in the ars for me... a BS mount issue NTP caused shutout PAM related logins...
chkconfig ntp off
There's the quick fix...
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posted on
12/23/2014 1:52:21 AM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
12/23/2014 2:18:49 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
12/23/2014 2:43:06 AM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: Swordmaker
Still using Snow Leopard ...
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posted on
12/23/2014 2:46:08 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
12/23/2014 2:52:44 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: dayglored
I looked, and noticed NTP was amongst my Fedora updates pending. Don’t know if it’s a fix of the same thing, but I went ahead and installed it.
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posted on
12/23/2014 6:55:31 AM PST
by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
To: Swordmaker
My MBP auto-updated, so I’m good.
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posted on
12/23/2014 7:06:34 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: kevkrom
It freaked me out to see an update applied that I did not have to approve. I didn’t like it. It seemed suspicious. So, I did some research and found that Apple pushed this security update using a system that does not require user interaction. Ugh. Sounds like another potential exploit vector.
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posted on
12/23/2014 8:27:21 AM PST
by
DigitalVideoDude
(It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
To: DigitalVideoDude
I was surprised by the auto-update as well. Thanks for the information.
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posted on
12/23/2014 9:03:01 AM PST
by
bubbacluck
(America 180)
To: Swordmaker
Update done; thanks for the ping!
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posted on
12/23/2014 9:55:33 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: Swordmaker
Update done; thanks for the ping!
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posted on
12/23/2014 9:55:33 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: Swordmaker
Thanks for the head’s up. It was fast.
To: zeugma
Yeah this applies to all systems and OSes with NTP, Linux, BSD, etc.
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posted on
12/23/2014 4:49:42 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: DigitalVideoDude; bubbacluck
It freaked me out to see an update applied that I did not have to approve. I didnt like it. It seemed suspicious. So, I did some research and found that Apple pushed this security update using a system that does not require user interaction. Ugh. Sounds like another potential exploit vector. Why are you surprised. At some point you set your App Store update preferences to automatically install updates, specifically system data files and security updates (those are the things that keep your Mac safe):
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posted on
12/23/2014 9:17:23 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: dayglored
Yeah this applies to all systems and OSes with NTP, Linux, BSD, etc. Thanks for the info on the universality of this NTP flaw extending to all *nix type operating systems.
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posted on
12/23/2014 9:20:44 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker
These days, it seems everyone is sharing the same code base and the same vulnerabilities.
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