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UK Government Agencies, Google Join Group that Promotes Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • November 12, 2024
The British cyber and defense research agencies joined a U.S and U.K.-government-supported computer hardware project designed to stop memory-based cyberattacks.
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Backers of the project in June formed an alliance to push for wider adoption of Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions – better known as CHERI – saying its uptake by computer manufacturers would prevent buffer overflows and heap use-after-free vulnerabilities. One commonly cited figure is that about 7 in 10 cyberattacks are traceable to memory-safety issues (see: Memory-Safe Coding Cuts Android System Flaws by 75%).
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