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AI: Get ready for Big Tech and Apple Intelligence: Security at Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” Event: On Monday, Apple held its September event, at which it made the announcement that Apple Intelligence will be incorporated into Siri and subsequent iOS operating systems. RAMBO returns AI means Apple Intelligence, not artificial intelligence. In the fall, the artificial intelligence features, which include email summaries, a new visual search that can recognize and extract text directly from a calendar event, and the ability to turn hastily written notes into eloquent emails, will become available to US customers as part of an iOS beta. Apple Intelligence will be available for the first time on the iPhone 16 series, which also features the brand-new A18-series chips that have faster GPUs to meet AI’s processing needs.
What it means: At the World Wide Developer Conference in June, Apple made its first public announcement of Apple Intelligence. However, the “It’s Glowtime” event focused on how smart artificial intelligence integration can enhance user experience. The iPhone 16 “has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up,” as stated by CEO Tim Cook, so there is no escaping it in the most recent models of smart devices. Users’ reactions to technology doing their thinking for them are yet to be determined.
iPhones all over: Every Apple fan is aware that the company will introduce the iPhone 16 in September, along with a new Apple Watch and updated AirPods. Display brightness on the new iPhone 16 series ranges from 1 nit to 2,000 nits. The new button makes it easier to change the camera’s settings and take pictures. The Grade 5 Titanium iPhone Pro and Pro Max editions have larger screens (6.3 inches and 6.9 inches, respectively), an even faster A18 Pro chip, a 5x telephoto camera, and more. The Apple Watch Series 10 is the lightest it has ever been, features an OLED display, and is 20% lighter than the Series 9. Apple claims that the AirPods 4 headphones are more comfortable than their predecessors. A second version of the AirPods 4 comes with active noise cancellation for an additional $50, and the charging case is now compatible with USB-C. A clinically validated hearing test and hearing aid features that can adapt to the user’s needs based on the test results are included in the second generation of AirPods Pro.
The RAMBO Side-Channel Attack Targets Air-Gapped Networks Keeping your data off a network is the easiest way to prevent its exfiltration. Frameworks set up this way are “air-gapped” in light of the fact that they’re secluded from outside organizations and actually isolated from the Web. However, a brand-new side-channel attack known as “Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense” (RAMBO) has the capability of manipulating the RAM of a device to generate electromagnetic signals that transmit ones and zeros via radio signal. An antenna can then be used to intercept and convert these signals back into binary. Because the transfer rate is only 0.125 KB/s, it would take more than two hours to collect a full megabyte of data. However, keylogging can be performed in real time and a password can be stolen in less than two seconds.
What it means: Security products aren’t designed to measure a device’s electromagnetic pulses during normal operations; instead, they focus on the actual data processing of the computer. Fortunately, the bad guy must first physically gain access to the air-gapped device in order to install the malware. Unfortunately, insider threats persist, so the researchers recommend increasing the system’s physical security, using frequency jammers, or even enclosing it in a Faraday cage.
