US EditionC++ creator calls for action to address 'serious attacks'
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Google calls for industry-wide memory safety standards to enhance software security
Security vulnerabilities related to memory safety are becoming increasingly troublesome among companies and organizations dealing with software products. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently urged developers to eliminate buffer overflow bugs. Google is now pushing for the entire software industry to step up against the dreadful flaws...Read Entire Article
The Open Source compiler TrapC in C and C++ is designed to make the code written in C and C++ safer with automatic memory management and memory-secure pointers.
Stroustrup calls on the C++ community to defend language since the polemics of the security agencies and the white house. C++ has become a target of choice for many security experts and publishers: C++ is not secure enough, use Rust! Because, the difficulty of using memory management and the notion of safe/unsafe and memory safe. Since then, several proposals have been launched to facilitate design security in the language: TrapC, FilC, MiniC, S…
C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from ‘serious attacks’ – OSnews
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings. C and C++ are built around manual memory management, which can result in memory safety errors, such as out of bounds reads and writes, though both languages can be written and combined with tools and libraries to he…
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