A new chip security consortium named CHERI Alliance is focused on protecting data stored in hardware memory from cyberattackers. The alliance backs a protection model that isolates the hardware and ...

How memory safety issues can expose you to very high cybersecurity damage How conventional memory protection leaves plenty of vulnerability. How CHERI can rigorously prevent some of the worst memory ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

In 2017, the credit bureau Equifax announced that hackers had breached its system, unleashing the personal information of 147-million people. As a result, the company has settled a class action suit ...

Android 14 has a new safety feature that protects against memory bugs. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro don’t have compatible hardware to support the feature. We might see it debut on the Pixel 8 series ...

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows. Microsoft added ...

Adarsh Mittal, a senior application-specific integrated circuit engineer, explores why many memory performance optimizations ...

FOTA is a technology that remotely updates a device’s firmware via wireless networks such as Wi-Fi, 5G, LTE, or Bluetooth ...