How updating your Mac's apps could allow man-in-the-middle attacks

Macworld
Feb 10, 2016, 5:44 pm633 pts
The drumbeat of avoiding insecure “http” web connections beats every louder. A researcher disclosed several days ago a vulnerability hiding in plain sight with the Sparkle update framework for OS X Yosemite and El Capitan. Because Sparkle allows apps to update via non-encrypted web connections, the potential…

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