US EditionApple may have found a fix for mercenary spyware attacks – and iPhone 17 and iPhone Air users get the most of new protections
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Apple may have found a fix for mercenary spyware attacks – and iPhone 17 and iPhone Air users get the most of new protections
Apple believes that its newly launched Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the "most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems."
The cybersecurity race is intensifying on smartphones. On the latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, Apple incorporates Memory Integrity Enforcement, a technology that is supposed to block espionage attempts.
In the face of rising attacks targeted by spy software such as Pegasus or Predator, Apple is deploying a new protection technology on its iPhone 17. Named Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), this innovation aims to block the most sophisticated intrusions by securing the system's memory. Integrated directly into Apple Silicon chips, it marks a major step forward in the fight against spyware. All iPhone 17 have active and permanent memory protecti…
The new iPhone Air, the iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Pro are equipped with a new protection against certain types of spyware attacks. It is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and Apple has been working on it for about five years, as stated in the blog post of Security Research, in which the function is announced. MIE requires new hardware (which is probably present in the A19 chips) as well as new low-level systems for memory access of the…
In the face of increasingly sophisticated spyware, Apple has designed a system to deal with memory corruption attacks in order to better protect iPhones.
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