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A Faster Path to Memory Safety: CHERI, Memory Tagging, and Control Flow Integrity

Security Boulevard

Recently, the White House published a technical paper asking organizations to develop roadmaps for implementing memory safety in their software applications. The post A Faster Path to Memory Safety: CHERI, Memory Tagging, and Control Flow Integrity appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Google and Apple deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in Android and iOS

Google Security

If a user gets such an alert on their Android device, it means that someone else’s AirTag, Find My Device network-compatible tracker tag, or other industry specification-compatible Bluetooth tracker is moving with them. Google’s Find My Device is secure by default and private by design.

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How we built the new Find My Device network with user security and privacy in mind

Google Security

Next, we developed multi-layered protections across three main areas: data safeguards, safety-first protections, and user controls. The keys themselves have no location capabilities, but they may have a Bluetooth tag attached. Nearby Android devices participating in the Find My Device network report the location of the Bluetooth tag.

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Tracked by hidden tags? Apple and Google unite to propose safety and security standards…

Naked Security

To bleat, or not to bleat, that is the question.

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MTE - The promising path forward for memory safety

Google Security

to develop Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) technology. MTE is now available on some OEM devices (as noted in a recent blog post by Project Zero) with Android 14 as a developer option, enabling developers to use MTE to discover memory safety issues in their application easily. as well as fuzzing (with sanitizers enabled).

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Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++

Google Security

Posted by Anton Bikineev, Michael Lippautz and Hannes Payer, Chrome security team Memory safety in Chrome is an ever-ongoing effort to protect our users. In this spirit, this post is about our journey of using heap scanning technologies to improve memory safety of C++. Let’s start at the beginning though.

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Privacy Device Designed to Defend Against Illegal Wireless Tracking

SecureWorld News

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, our personal privacy and even physical safety are under threat from a variety of sources. People being stalked and tracked are unaware for many hours and sometime days because tech giants have not prioritized the safety of individuals into the design of these personal trackers.

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