Apple’s high-profile release of iOS 14.4, including security fixes for three critical vulnerabilities said to have been exploited by hackers in the wild, once again shows why enterprises need to deploy mobile threat defense (MTD) solutions.  Whether it is the Jeff Bezos hack or the ‘scariest iPhone hack ever,’ vulnerabilities open the door for hackers … Read More

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Can you explain what checkm8 is?  On Friday, September 27th 2019, a security researcher known as @axi0mX publicly disclosed a vulnerability together with a working exploit called checkm8 (read “checkmate”). This permanent and unpatchable exploit leverages a vulnerability in Apple’s bootrom (read-only code; SecureROM), the initial and critical part in the secure boot chain. Every … Read More

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Can you explain what checkm8 is?  On Friday, September 27th 2019, a security researcher known as @axi0mX publicly disclosed a vulnerability together with a working exploit called checkm8 (read “checkmate”). This permanent and unpatchable exploit leverages a vulnerability in Apple’s bootrom (read-only code; SecureROM), the initial and critical part in the secure boot chain. Every … Read More

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