Interesting memory safety topic

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 12 February 2019 at 20:25:24 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu 
wrote:
> Something that caught my attention on Reddit’s r/cpp
>
> “Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety 
> issues”
>
> Reddit r/cpp thread about this
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/aprgkf/microsoft_70_percent_of_all_security_bugs_are/?st=JS27GQSQ&sh=3fc6d57c
>
> Cheers,
> Edi

Session slides available here:

https://github.com/Microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/master/presentations/2019_02_BlueHatIL/2019_01%20-%20BlueHatIL%20-%20Trends%2C%20challenge%2C%20and%20shifts%20in%20software%20vulnerability%20mitigation.pdf

TL;DR; Key points from Microsoft internal development, focus on 
C# and Rust, push tooling to enforce usage of C++ Core Guidelines 
for the areas where C++ is still unavoidable.