Apple's iPhone 17 Has a Big Anti-Spyware Upgrade Built in - Here's What It Can Do
Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement, developed over five years, integrates hardware and software to block spyware exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities on iPhone 17 and iPhone Air.
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Apple’s new Memory Integrity Enforcement system deals a huge blow to spyware developers
Apple has unveiled a comprehensive security system called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) that represents a five-year engineering effort to combat sophisticated cyberattacks targeting individual users through memory corruption vulnerabilities. The technology is built into Apple’s new iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices, as well as the A19 and A19 Pro chips. It combines custom-designed hardware with changes to the operating system to deliver what…
Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade
It’s less noticeable than a thinner profile or trick camera lenses, but Apple is pointing out another upgrade in the iPhone 17 family of phones that it says is part of “the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.” Explicitly targeting the spyware industry that produces exploits for tools like Pegasus to hack on targeted devices, a series of changes in Apple’s chips, OS, and development tools are pa…
Apple Announces ‘Memory Integrity Enforcement’
Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR): Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices - without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Int…
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