Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade
It is less perceptible than a thinner profile or TRICK camera lenses, but Apple indicates another upgrade of the iPhone family explicitly targets the spy software industry that produces exploits for tools like Pegasus to hack on targeted devices, a series of changes in chips, operating system and Apple development tools are part of what it calls the application of memory. (Mie).
With the introduction of the range of the iPhone 17 and the iPhone Air, we are delighted to provide the application of the integrity of memory: the very first complete protection and always on the safety of memory covering the attacks of the keys – including the nucleus and more than 70 user processes – built on the extension of improved memory marking (EMTE) and supported by secure typical beneficiaries and confidentiality of tag.
The approach is similar to what we have seen in the introduction of safety integrity safety features by Microsoft for Windows 11, as well as a series of modifications that have arrived to prevent speculative scheme vulnerabilities as a spectrum. Apple’s blog post also mentions ARM efforts with the memory marking extension (MTE) to fight memory bugs, which is supported on Google Pixel phones starting with the Pixel 8 series and activated for supported applications if you activate advanced protection.
Apple claims that its implementation goes further, with the possibility of protecting all default users and designing its A19 and A19 Pro chips for improved safety, while adding memory safety for older equipment that does not support new memory beacon features. The company also claims that its new attenuation for spectrum V1 Flaks works with “practically zero processor cost” – because performance successes were a problem for the integrity of memory and other security features – with all the modifications making “mercenary spy software” even more expensive to develop.
People behind the security -focused grapheneos project have recognized the “main safety improvements” that will help the iPhone Security in an article on X, but also said they had problems with the presentation and how he represented iOS Security vs like MTE, already published for Android. We will learn more about the quantity of changes once these updates reach the devices and attackers take their turn while trying to open the security of the iPhone 17 and the iPhone Air.
