Apple has added a “grounbreaking” new memory security feature to its new iPhone 17 lineup called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), which the company describes as “the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.”

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The new security feature targets spyware tools like Pegasus that exploit vulnerabilities to hack targeted devices. According to Apple, MIE provides comprehensive, always-on memory-safety protection covering the kernel and over 70 userland processes,…