Apple iMessage gets new security protection in iOS 14 update
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February 01, 2021 16:06 IST
Named ‘BlastDoor’, the system is a sandbox mode that aims to prevent attacks carried out on the messages app.
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Apple iMessage gets new security protection in iOS 14 update.
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Named ‘BlastDoor’, the system is a sandbox mode that aims to prevent attacks carried out on the messages app.
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Apple started the roll out of its latest major software update in September with a number of features for its messaging app, iMessage.
Apple has made the iMessage service even more secure, at a time when there is a lot of concerned conversation around data privacy, security and encryption available on other popular instant messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.
Jan. 29—After years of various attacks targeting iMessage, its popular device-exclusive messenger service, Apple finally went ahead and set up a ‘sandbox’ around the service in the latest operating system update to iOS 14, according to a researcher at Google’s Project Zero te
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BlastDoor Sandbox parses all iMessage content in an isolated sandbox. Apple has introduced the BlastDoor Sandbox to the iMessage framework in iOS in order to prevent execution of malicious code.
In the past, there have been various instances where security researchers revealed that a “string of texts” received over SMS could crash your phone or worse, send it into a boot-loop. These kinds of exploits have been reported at least once every year for both iOS and Android smartphones but turns out, iOS 14 has a way to thwarting these kinds of exploits for good, thanks to a system called BlastDoor.