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

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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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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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