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Uppsala Sweden, November 1, 2023 – IAR, the world leader in software and services for embedded development, announces seamless integration of support for Renesas RA8 MCUs in the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, version 9.40.2. This update provides extensive support for the cutting-edge Arm® Cortex®-M85-based RA8 devices.  Key Highlights: Cutting-edge support: IAR’s…

IAR has announced that is offering support for Renesas’s RA8 MCUs in the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, version 9.40.2.

IAR has announced v9.40 of the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm.

Microsoft has released the final version of security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11, version 22H2, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit.

Google Chrome has enabled hardware-enforced stack protection technology that Microsoft first adopted for Windows 10. It works with machines running on Windows 20H1 (December Update) or later powered by processors that support Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) such as AMD Zen 3 Ryzen and 11th-generation Intel CPUs.

Real-time detector of zero-day attacks on processor - Cyber Escort Unit The end justifies the means. It seems that today s processors follow this Machiavellian precept to achieve even more impressive performances. However, this has a critical negative impact on security by neglecting some basic recommendations on program execution. Despite huge efforts in the formal proof domain, secure coding is not so far at the easy reach of human nor machines, meaning that, by essence, a software code c...