"After Decades of Memory-Related Software Bugs, White House Calls on Industry to Act"
The Biden administration urges the technology industry to make secure products from the start, recently calling for increased use of memory-safe programming languages. The effort by the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) seeks to reduce coding errors that enable attackers to exploit how software manages computer memory. These flaws can be used to compromise or corrupt data and execute malicious code. It is critical to eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities on a large scale by securing cyberspace's building blocks, according to National Cyber Director Harry Coker, who detailed a new technical report produced by the White House for the industry. According to ONCD, the report has received backing from leaders in the technology sector and academia, with statements of support from officials at SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and other companies. This article continues to discuss the need for greater use of memory-safe programming languages.
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