Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares ...

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, ...

Rust’s ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at run time. Here’s how to use them in your programs. The Rust programming language shares many concepts with other languages intended ...

Rust is rapidly emerging as a preferred language for safety-critical and embedded systems, thanks to its memory safety guarantees and strong type system. However, its adoption is not without ...

In Rust we Trust: Modern programming languages designed to enforce memory safety are gaining popularity. Rust, a language initiated by software developer Graydon Hoare while working at Mozilla, is now ...

The Rust programming language continues to tally up wins against the venerable, yet still very popular, C and C++ languages. While technology firms and the US government have pushed software ...

The number of memory-related vulnerabilities in Android has dropped sharply over the past five years, thanks to Google's use of a secure-by-design approach that emphasizes the use of memory-safe ...

Google has hailed Rust, a memory safe programming language, as a significant factor in its ability to cut down on vulnerabilities as part of its Safe Coding initiative. Memory access vulnerabilities ...

A new joint guidance released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at partners is warning of the widespread and costly prevalence of memory safety vulnerabilities in critical ...

When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ...