Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security ...

The shift towards memory safe languages -- most notably, but not only, to Rust -- has even prompted the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup and his peers, to devise a plan for the "Safety of C++".

Memory safety vulnerabilities a concern in programming languages Memory safety vulnerabilities have been around for more than 35 years, the report pointed out, with no one solution appearing.

Memory safety is a property of certain programming languages that allocate memory automatically, helping to prevent human errors that enable memory-linked hacks. Those languages — which include ...

Tech companies need to switch to memory-safe programming languages to boost software security, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has said. Programming languages such as ...

Another common type of memory-safety bug, known as “use-after-free,” involves a situation where a program has given up its claim to a portion of memory (maybe you deleted all your calendar ...

Android has been using memory-safe programming languages such as Rust for some time now to increase the security of the operating system. Now this approach is being extended to the firmware ...

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the ...

Rust is meant to be fast, safe, and reasonably easy to use.It’s also intended to be used widely, and not simply end up as a curiosity or an also-ran in the programming language sweepstakes.Good ...