A bit of commonly ignored, leftover code found in many applications could give attackers a chance to remotely control or load malware onto your systems, a research team said this week. Jonathan Afek ...

How pointers create pitfalls for a number of hard-to-detect programming errors. How Rust avoids these pitfalls and catches most pointer errors at compile time. Pointers have been a staple of ...

Memory unsafety is a characteristic of many of today’s systems. The root cause of buffer bounds vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and over-reads is unsafe programming. Major software vendors ...

What is the Rust borrow checker and why is it important? How mutability and reference-counted pointers are related. Arguably the most novel aspect of Rust, and the feature that’s the most challenging ...