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Microsoft Veeps Ignite Fire Under CrowdStrike
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, crowdstrike updates, David Weston, ignite, Microsoft, Microsoft security, Microsoft Virus Initiative, Microsoft Windows, Quick Machine Recovery, rust, Safe Deployment Practices, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows security
BSODs begone! Redmond business leaders line up to say what’s new in Windows security ...
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Master fuzzing with our new Testing Handbook chapter
Our latest addition to the Trail of Bits Testing Handbook is a comprehensive guide to fuzzing: an essential, effective, low-effort method to find bugs in software that involves repeatedly running a program ...

Microsoft Ditches C# for Rust: M365 Core Gets Safety and Perf Boosts
C# — Rust in peas: Microsoft 365 “Core Platform Substrate” gets rewrite in Rust language ...
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Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) recap
Last month, two of our engineers attended the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) in Hamburg, joining thousands of hackers who gather each year to exchange the latest research and achievements in technology ...

CISA to Developers: Adopt Memory Safe Programming Languages
Software makers need to embrace the growing number of newer programming languages that protect memory to reduce the number of security vulnerabilities in their products, according to cybersecurity agencies in the United ...
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How CISA can improve OSS security
By Jim Miller The US government recently issued a request for information (RFI) about open-source software (OSS) security. In this blog post, we will present a summary of our response and proposed ...

Rust in Windows — it’s Official — Safe and Fast
Richi Jennings | | David Weston, memory safe, memory safe language, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, rust, SB Blogwatch, Windows
40-year-old code: Starting with ancient, vulnerable legacy, Redmond team is rewriting chunks in the trendy secure language ...
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Rust: Officially Released in Linux 6.1 Kernel
Richi Jennings | | Linux, memory exploit, rust, SB Blogwatch, they're adopting a wait-and-C approach, Vulnerabilities
At the weekend, Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.1 to the world. Among other security features is support for writing parts of the kernel in Rust ...
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NSA’s Plea: Stop Using C and C++ (Because You’re Idiots)
Richi Jennings | | Linux, memory exploit, National Security Agency, Neal Ziring, nsa, rust, SB Blogwatch, Vulnerabilities
The C and C++ languages are unsafe. Instead, the NSA would like devs to use memory-safe languages—such as Rust ...
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