The Internet worm of 1988 took offline one tenth of the fledgling network, and severely slowed down the remainder [1]. Over 30 years later, two of the most important classes of security vulnerability ...

Buffer overflows, race conditions, use-after-free and more account for more than half of all vulnerabilities in the Android platform. Aiming at improving the security of the Android ecosystem, Google ...

Recently, a team of Korean researchers from Samsung, Seoul National University, and Georgia Institute of Technology have tested a new speculative execution attack called TIKTAG. Quite surprisingly, ...

With memory-safety bugs continuing to haunt developers of all types -- especially those using C++ -- Google will borrow from Arm's memory tagging scheme to harden its Android mobile platform ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) in ...

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.

With memory-safety bugs continuing to haunt developers of all types -- especially those using C++ -- Google will borrow from Arm's memory tagging scheme to harden its Android mobile platform ...