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Can a Programming Language Reduce Vulnerabilities?

Can a Programming Language Reduce Vulnerabilities? Rust offers a safer programming language, but adoption is still a problem despite recent signs of increasing popularity. When Microsoft wanted to rewrite a security-critical network processing agent to eliminate memory-safety vulnerabilities causing recurring headaches for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), the company tasked an intern and told him to rewrite the code in Rust.  Rust, a programming language that has claimed the title of most loved among developers for five years in a row, could change the vulnerability landscape by practically eliminating certain types of memory-safety errors. The language s claim to fame is that it provides the speed and control of C and C++, while delivering security and safety guarantees of other languages, such as Go and Python. Nearly 70% of the vulnerabilities that the MSRC processes are classified as memory-safety issues, so eliminating the class of vulnerabilities is critical

Network Pivots, Patch Bypasses: Exploits Hit Hard

The company delves into the threats to offer defenders a better understanding of what constituted dangerous vulnerabilities in 2020, says Caitlin Condon, manager of software engineering at Rapid7. There was a pervasive feeling in the information-security community, especially among defenders, that the sky was falling nearly all the time, she says. It is often very difficult for the people in charge of security to look at all the research materials and all the artifacts at all the information about a vulnerability and determine why a vulnerability may matter or not matter for their risk model. In the report, Rapid7 breaks down the threats into flaws exploited indiscriminately in widespread attacks (28%), security issues often, zero-day vulnerabilities used in targeted attacks (32%), and vulnerabilities the company considers to be impending threats (40%).

Intel, Microsoft Aim for Breakthrough in DARPA

Intel, Microsoft Aim for Breakthrough in DARPA Encryption Project Together, the vendor giants aim to make in use encryption also known as fully homomorphic encryption economical and practical. The widespread encryption of data while stored on disk and communicated through the network often called at rest and in transit are critical security measures to protect business and personal data. Now Intel and Microsoft hope to create a practical and usable implementation of a third measure in use encryption that could allow encrypted data to be processed without decryption. More formally known as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), this area of cryptography research has already produced algorithms and systems that can manipulate encrypted data in very specific ways for, say, averaging or searching. When the data in unencrypted, the result is the same as if the operation had been performed on the plaintext data. Yet FHE is costly, with processing requiring up to a m

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