Consumer Reports, an 87-year-old nonprofit focused on product testing, this week published a report on memory safety. The publication acknowledged its

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2023-01-27 08:00:08

Consumer Reports, an 87-year-old nonprofit focused on product testing, this week published a report on memory safety. The publication acknowledged its unexpected coverage of the topic by explaining how it came to explore this highly technical concern after internal conversations about the limitations of its consumer-focused guide to online security.

The topic came up on Wednesday at the USENIX Enigma 2023 conference, where panelists Yael Grauer (deputy content editor, Consumer Reports Digital Lab), Amira Dhalla (associate director of mobilizations, community engagement, and operations at Consumer Reports), Alex Gaynor (software security engineer and founder of Fish in a Barrel), and Josh Aas (co-founder and executive director of the non-profit Internet Security Research Group) chatted about what can be done to reduce memory safety vulnerabilities.

Memory errors occur when computer code tries to access an area of memory that's undefined, meaning it hasn't been specifically allocated or set aside as part of the heap, stack, or declared data.

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