Apple's iOS 14 integrates new Messages security sandbox called BlastDoor

Apple's iOS 14 operating system includes a new security sandbox system designed to protect Messages users from potentially malicious code, according to new research shared on Thursday.

Discovered by Samuel Groß, a member of Google's Project Zero team, the new sandbox is named BlastDoor and is restricted to the Messages level of iOS, reports ZDNet.BlastDoor quietly shipped with iOS 14 last year, though Apple has not publicly referenced the security feature. Groß detailed the "tightly sandboxed" service in a blog post today.

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