So when the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ... persuade software manufacturers to abandon "memory-unsafe ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency also urged developers to use memory-safe programming languages in a September blog post. ... C++, and Java. Shifting responsibility.

Some of developers’ favorite programming languages cause the biggest security risk for systems that require the utmost safety, according to the White House. The government sanctioned Office of ...

In context: Common memory safety bugs can lead to dangerous security vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, uninitialized memory, type confusion, and use-after-free conditions. Attackers can ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation assert that C, C++, and other memory-unsafe languages contribute to potential security breaches.

Memory safe languages do exist and include Rust, Go, Java, Swift, and Python. C++ is under particular scrutiny because of the amount of critical code that has been written in it.

If you’ve been paying any attention to the security breaches hitting Apple, Facebook, Twitter, NBC, and others these past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed a common culprit: our poor old ...

Cyber-attackers can use the BlackHole kit, which extensively uses Java flaws, to launch malicious Websites that can download malware on unsuspecting site visitors running an outdated version of ...