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Apple releases critical NTP Security Update for OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, & Mountain Lion

Security UpdateApple today released an OS X NTP Security Update for Mac users running 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. The update is recommended for all users and fixes a “critical security issue with the software that provides the Network Time Protocol service for OS X,” according to Apple. Check the Updates tab of the Mac App Store to grab the security update. More details regarding the security update for OS X should be able through this support document soon.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/22/ntp-security-update-os-x-yosemite-mavericks-mountain-lion/

I ran ```
softwareupdate –background-critical
``` and that seemed to work on 10.9 and 10.10 boxes. The update is marked as critical in the installer .plist so it seems to make sense based on Rich's blog post.

The folks in the ##osx-server IRC room put their heads together this afternoon to help figure this out. I've got a post on the findings available from the link below:

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/managing-os-xs-automatic-security-updates/

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