A bit of commonly ignored, leftover code found in many applications could give attackers a chance to remotely control or load malware onto your systems, a research team said this week. Jonathan Afek ...

How pointers create pitfalls for a number of hard-to-detect programming errors. How Rust avoids these pitfalls and catches most pointer errors at compile time. Pointers have been a staple of ...

Memory unsafety is a characteristic of many of today’s systems. The root cause of buffer bounds vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and over-reads is unsafe programming. Major software vendors ...

Memory management is central to every program. Dangling pointers due to improper memory management procedures are among the banes of C and C++. Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, ...

The big picture: Mozilla has released new versions of its Firefox browser that correct a pair of critical zero-day vulnerabilities. Both have already been actively exploited in the wild, so you'll ...