Apple Launches The First Automatic Update For Macintosh

It seems Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is taking security and privacy very seriously. The company on Tuesday released its first automatic security update for Macs after the Department of Homeland Security and the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute reported finding dangerous new ‘Mac bugs’ in their security bulletins recently.

Dan Costa, the Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine, was on CNBC to discuss about this first automatic update and how it prevents serious threats.

"It's unusual for Apple because people think about Apple and they think that the computers don't have any security problems and it's true that they don't get viruses quite as much as Windows’ PC and this isn’t a virus per se, but it is a security flaw, it is a problem that needed to be addressed and it seems like Apple is taking very proactive steps to correct it," Costa said.

How Big Of A Security Issue Could This Have Been?

"Technically, it seems like a small thing. It has to do with how the clocks are set and how the network establishes its time on the system, but effectively it can give a hacker control over your system. So, Apple wanted to deal with it quickly, they wanted to deal with effectively and so they used this tool they have had for two years to actually push the update out to the software without the user agreeing to it. That's something they haven’t done before," Costa added.