Social security numbers stolen. Public transport halted. Hospital systems frozen until ransoms are paid. These are some of the damaging consequences of unsecure memory in computer systems.Over the past decade, public awareness of such cyberattacks has intensified, as their impacts have harmed individuals, corporations, and governments. Today, this awareness is coinciding with technologies that are finally mature enough to eliminate vulnerabilities in memory safety. “We are at a tipping point — now is the right time to move to memory-safe systems,” says Hamed Okhravi, a cybersecurity expert in MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Secure…
