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AI Breaks Five-Year Apple Security in Five Days
technology11 days ago

AI Breaks Five-Year Apple Security in Five Days

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview helped Calif researchers uncover and weaponize a data-only kernel escalation against Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) on the M5, delivering a working exploit in five days after Apple spent five years building the defense. The flaw can bypass MIE even when active on macOS 26.4.1, with human experts guiding the exploit’s design. Apple says vulnerabilities are taken seriously and is working on a patch, while Calif plans to publish a 55-page technical report; the episode highlights how agentic AI can speed up security discoveries, for better or worse.

Apple Enhances iPhone Security with Advanced Memory Protections and A19 Chips
technology8 months ago

Apple Enhances iPhone Security with Advanced Memory Protections and A19 Chips

Apple's iPhone 17 introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a hardware-level security feature that enhances protection for crypto users by detecting and blocking dangerous memory access patterns, thereby reducing the risk of memory-corruption exploits, though it does not eliminate all security threats like phishing or malicious apps.

Apple's iPhone 17 Enhances Security with A19 Chips and Advanced Memory Protections
technology8 months ago

Apple's iPhone 17 Enhances Security with A19 Chips and Advanced Memory Protections

Apple has introduced a new security feature called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) in its latest iPhone models, including iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, which leverages enhanced memory tagging technology to protect against memory corruption vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and use-after-free bugs, aiming to improve device security against spyware and targeted attacks.