Apple’s Big Bet to Eliminate the iPhone’s Most Targeted Vulnerabilities
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Summary
Apple has announced new iPhones featuring its latest A19 and A19 Pro chips, alongside an ultrathin iPhone Air and other redesigns.
The key feature is the addition of Memory Integrity Enforcement, offering increased protection against the exploitation of memory-safety vulnerabilities, which the NSA and CISA have termed an “insidious” and “ubiquitous” bug.
Such vulnerabilities can lead to anything from system crashes to operational disruption and data breaches, hence Apple’s new feature.
Memory Integrity Enforcement combines hardware and software protection, integrating the memory-safe Swift programming language for new code, while rewriting existing code; it also includes secure memory allocators to reduce vulnerabilities.
The feature is built into iPhone 17, iPhone Air and will be available to developers adapting it for wider use on other products.
