Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE)<\/a> will be arriving alongside the iPhone 17 family. According to the company, the MIE system targets spyware products such as Pegasus that hack targeted devices. MIE provides always-on memory-safety protection for devices, covering the kernel process. Apple has built the system on the Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE).<\/p>\n\u201cWith the introduction of the iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air, we\u2019re excited to deliver Memory Integrity Enforcement: the industry\u2019s first ever, comprehensive, always-on memory-safety protection covering key attack surfaces \u2014 including the kernel and over 70 userland processes \u2014 built on the Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) and supported by secure typed allocators and tag confidentiality protections.\u201d<\/p>\n
The latest security feature will be powered by Apple\u2019s new A19 and A19 Pro chipsets. Available on iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, the new chips were designed with enhanced security in mind. Unfortunately, this means that older hardware won\u2019t be able to support the new memory tagging features on iPhone 17.<\/p>\n
The latest security measures are confirmed to include protection for Spectre V1 attacks. Apple states MIE works with \u201cvirtually zero CPU cost.\u201d With its new measures, the company predicts that \u201cmercenary spyware\u201d will be significantly more expensive to produce, posing an impact on other exploitative software.<\/p>\n
Apple is also confirmed to be making EMTE available to all Apple developers across Xcode as part of the new\u00a0Enhanced Security<\/a> feature that was released during WWDC this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is introducing a new memory security feature across the iPhone 17 series. While the feature wasn\u2019t touched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":["post-188967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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