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The vulnerability comes from an improper implementation of SSL and TLSthe standard encryption systems used for secure Internet connections.

It does this by incorrectly validating the certificates that prove that, for example, the Web page youre seeing is really coming from your bank.

An attacker on the same Wi-Fi network could spoof the banks site and see any information you send.

Luckily, Apple has patched the vulnerabilityand added a few desirable user feature enhancements, too boot.

You could just save cricital files to external storage as a half measure.).

If other updates are offered, run those as well as the OS X updates.

Onyx 10.9.2 Download Apples Manual

Another option is to download Apples manual installer ).

It will show a progress bar for several minutes; On my MacBook Air it took just 12 minutes.

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Onyx For Mac 10.9.2