The 30th anniversary of Java, being celebrated this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes ...

Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security ...

On Microsoft Windows, the task manager can show memory usage when a Java program is running. This mechanism gives a coarse-grained idea of a process’s total memory utilization.

The NSA and CISA are urging developers to adopt programming languages that reduce the risks of memory safety vulnerabilities.

Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or ...

Python, Java, C#, Go, Delphi/Object Pascal, Swift, Ruby, Rust and Ada are some memory-safe programming languages, according to an April 2023 NSA report. New metrics for measuring software security ...

Report puts forward ways that memory safe coding should be encouraged. But there's still a lot of other code out there. Memory safe programming languages are on the rise.

That's where JEP 454 comes in. First previewed in Java 19 and delivered in Java 22, it introduces the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API, which is designed to address those limitations and usher in a ...