iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security Apple has been working to harden the XNU kernel that powers its various operating systems, including iOS and macOS, with a feature called ...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Among countless other things, I’m thankful to have a weekday during which I can leave my BlackBerry powered down. I have also chosen today to give overdue thanks to ...

Another day, another vulnerability. Discovered by [Kevin Backhouse], CVE-2018-4407 is a particularly serious problem because it is present all throughout Apple’s product line, from the Macboo… ...

XNU is the operating system kernel for MacOS that has been in use as far back as the mid-1990s — a kernel is the core computer program that allows for software to communicate with a device’s ...

Over the course of the last six months, program participants have received 37 CVE credits for their findings, and have contributed to improvements for the XNU kernel, kernel extensions, and XPC ...

As for the other two vulnerabilities, one is a WebKit flaw that could lead to arbitrary code execution, and the other is a bug in the Darwin XNU kernel that allows an attacker to execute code with ...

In what is being called a highly sophisticated attack, a group of hackers leveraged a total of 11 zero-day vulnerabilities and a host of compromised websites to infect fully patched devices ...

Steven Troughton-Smith provided a picture of a Nokia N900 running the XNU Kernel successfully. This build does not make a whole operating system as the user interface elements are absent.

Six PhD students at Columbia University‘s Department of Computer Science have developed Cider, an OS compatibility architecture capable of running iOS apps on Android. Rather than using a strict ...