Google to support the use of Rust in Chromium

In a blog by the Chrome security team we learned that the Chromium project is going to support the use of third-party Rust libraries from C++ in Chromium. This is good news because Rust is a so-called memory-safe programming language. So using it in a widespread program like Chrome and the other...

Android is slowly mastering memory management vulnerabilities

Recently we wrote about why the NSA wants you to shift to memory safe programming languages. The short version is: If you ever read our posts describing security vulnerabilities, you will see a lot of phrases like "buffer overflow", "failure to release memory", "use after free", "memory...

Occlum 安全漏洞

Occlum is a memory-safe, multiprocess library operating system for Intel SGX. A security vulnerability in util/memutil.rs in Occlum for Intel SGX prior to version 0.26.0 stems from pointer validation logic acting as an obfuscation agent. Allows a local attacker to access unauthorized information...

Apple iOS 14 Thwarts iMessage Attacks With BlastDoor System

In an effort to prevent attacks from being launched via its iMessage feature, Apple has debuted a security service called BlastDoor in iOS 14, its current mobile operating system version. First detailed in an analysis this week by Google Project Zero’s Samuel Groß, BlastDoor acts as a “tightly...

We need a safer systems programming language

In our first post in this series, we discussed the need for proactively addressing memory safety issues. Tools and guidance are demonstrably not preventing this class of vulnerabilities; memory safety issues have represented almost the same proportion of vulnerabilities assigned a CVE for over a...

Researchers, IEEE Release Medical Device Security Guidelines

A collection of research scientists, with help from the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative, have released a new set of guidelines for developers to take into account to ensure security figures into how medical devices are coded. The paper, “Building Code for Medical Device Software Security,” .PDF was...