Apples latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers | TechCrunch

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News Summary

  • Apple announced new security technology for its latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices.
  • The feature is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is designed to help stop memory corruption bugs.
  • The result is likely to make life harder for the companies that make spyware and zero-day exploits for planting spyware on a target’s phone or extracting data from them.
  • “The iPhone 17 is probably now the most secure computing environment on the planet that is still connected to the internet,” a security researcher, who has worked on developing and selling zero-days and other cyber capabilities to the U.S. government for years, told TechCrunch.
Buried in an ocean of flashy novelties announced by Apple this week, the tech giant also revealed new security technology for its latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices. This new security technology [+6858 chars]

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