About us
Almamater Technologies is a security R&D boutique. We specialize in vulnerability research and engineering for critical, high-value software such as operating systems, mobile platforms and web browsers.
We like hard problems, especially ones without a known answer yet. We question assumptions and put the pieces together by taking them apart.
Like everyone before us and everyone after us, we’re students of the game. In that spirit, we publish our research, the tools we build and our findings, so others can learn from them and build on them.
Latest research
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Meet N1: Apple’s wireless chip Inside N1 1
How a Mac connects to N1, which macOS processes talk to the chip, what its firmware has code for, and how that firmware reaches it at start-up.
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Remember where you came from: Return addresses on Apple silicon
How and why Apple's M6 signs each return address with the address of the instruction that signed it.
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New chip, new catch: Checked pointers on Apple silicon
Apple's M6 checks pointer arithmetic in hardware.