Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

Roughly 70% of all serious security bugs in the Chrome codebase are memory management and safety bugs, Google engineers said this week. Half of the 70% are use-after-free vulnerabilities, a type of ...

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities. US President Joe ...