Sparkle software updater leaves 'huge' number of Mac apps open to attack
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/02/09/sparkle-software-updater-opens-mac-to-attack
A "huge" number of third-party Mac apps are under threat of
man-in-the-middle attacks due to a recently discovered
vulnerability in Sparkle, an open source framework used to
facilitate software updates.
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