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White House Urges Tech Industry to Eliminate Memory Safety Vulnerabili (www.infosecurity-magazine.com)

submitted 10 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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The White House is calling on the tech industry to use programming languages that prevent memory vulnerabilities, responsible for up to 70% of CVEs in insecure languages. The ONCD recommends this change to improve software security, and the new U.S. cybersecurity strategy focuses on security from the design stage.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's just a little bit of overflow. I can't think of any situation where overflow causes any har-

[–] RobertoOberto 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The ONCD said that software and hardware developers are best positioned to implement memory-safe languages

Very insightful. I thought plumbers would be the ones handling it.