rust - Tagged - Security Boulevard The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:58:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png rust - Tagged - Security Boulevard 32 32 133346385 Microsoft Veeps Ignite Fire Under CrowdStrike https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/microsoft-ignite-2024-security-crowdstrike-richixbw/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:03:14 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2037060 David “dwizzzle” Weston

BSODs begone! Redmond business leaders line up to say what’s new in Windows security.

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]]> 2037060 Master fuzzing with our new Testing Handbook chapter https://securityboulevard.com/2024/02/master-fuzzing-with-our-new-testing-handbook-chapter/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:00:13 +0000 https://blog.trailofbits.com/?p=106293 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 with random inputs to cause unexpected results. At Trail of Bits, we don’t just rely on standard static analysis. We tailor our approach […]

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]]> 2008405 Microsoft Ditches C# for Rust: M365 Core Gets Safety and Perf Boosts https://securityboulevard.com/2024/02/microsoft-365-rust-richixbw/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:39:53 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2007515 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, with superimposed text: “C# is dead”

C# — Rust in peas: Microsoft 365 “Core Platform Substrate” gets rewrite in Rust language.

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]]> 2007515 Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) recap https://securityboulevard.com/2024/02/chaos-communication-congress-37c3-recap/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:00:01 +0000 https://blog.trailofbits.com/?p=106182 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 and security. Unlike other tech conferences, this annual gathering focuses on the interaction of technology and society, covering such topics as politics, entertainment, […]

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]]> 2007555 CISA to Developers: Adopt Memory Safe Programming Languages https://securityboulevard.com/2023/12/cisa-to-developers-adopt-memory-safe-programming-languages/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:20:52 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2001277 software developer memory safe 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 States and other countries. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released a report outlining steps software developers can take..

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]]> 2001277 How CISA can improve OSS security https://securityboulevard.com/2023/11/how-cisa-can-improve-oss-security/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:35:59 +0000 https://blog.trailofbits.com/?p=105324 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 solutions. Some of our solutions include rewriting widely used legacy code in memory safe languages such as Rust, funding OSS solutions to improve […]

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]]> 1999730 Rust in Windows — it’s Official — Safe and Fast https://securityboulevard.com/2023/04/rust-microsoft-windows-richixbw/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:21:18 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1973428

40-year-old code: Starting with ancient, vulnerable legacy, Redmond team is rewriting chunks in the trendy secure language.

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]]> 1973428 Linking Lit’s Lightweight Web Components And WebR For Vanilla JS Reactivity https://securityboulevard.com/2023/03/linking-lits-lightweight-web-components-and-webr-for-vanilla-js-reactivity/ Sat, 25 Mar 2023 19:57:47 +0000 https://rud.is/b/?p=13860 See it live before reading! This is a Lit + WebR reproduction of the OG Shiny Demo App Lit is a javascript library that makes it a bit easier to work with Web Components, and is especially well-suited in reactive environments. My recent hack-y WebR experiments have been using Reef which is an even ligher-weight... Continue reading →

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]]> 1969548 Rust: Officially Released in Linux 6.1 Kernel https://securityboulevard.com/2022/12/rust-linux-6-1-richixbw/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:45:17 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1949383

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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]]> 1949383 NSA’s Plea: Stop Using C and C++ (Because You’re Idiots) https://securityboulevard.com/2022/11/nsa-memory-safe-richixbw/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:52:37 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1945442

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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