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Could this 'Unhackable' Chip Be a Security Moonshot?

SecureWorld News

A recent University of Michigan update on the chip explains how this operates: "It focuses on randomizing bits of data known as 'undefined semantics.' Undefined semantics are nooks and crannies of the computing architecture—for example the location, format, and content of program code. The unhackable chip bug bounty competition.

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What Is A Null Pointer Dereference Error?

ForAllSecure

CWE-476 Null Pointer Dereference is a programming error that can occur when a program attempts to deference a null pointer. If the program dereferences the null pointer, it can cause a segmentation fault or other undefined behavior, which can lead to a crash. There are a few ways to avoid null pointer dereferences.

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Blue Origin and four other companies win millions to keep lunar lander dreams alive

GeekWire

Months after losing out to SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and two of its partners in a lunar lander project will be getting fresh infusions of financial support from NASA, thanks to a follow-up program aimed at boosting capabilities for putting astronauts on the moon.

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Is Cisco’s ACI vaporware?

Virtualized Greek

Loosely or undefined release date. We have a product that seems to be a result of competitive pressure in ACI, we have a critical component that has an undefined release date and, we have no customer or partner testimonies discussing the beta program with early prototypes in hand. Let’s take a look. So, let’s review.

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Back to the Fuzz: Fuzzing for Command Injections

ForAllSecure

This is interesting for a couple of reasons: The vulnerable program is a CGI binary — meaning it takes input through environment variables. Command injection is a class of software bugs that doesn't involve memory corruption or any other means of taking over the vulnerable program. If the escape_shell_cmd ( util.c:137

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Good, Better, Best Software Testing Tools

ForAllSecure

Consider, we have a very simple computer program. At the left is a simple program behavior, where an unknown vulnerability lies at the bottom of a chain of conditional statements. In computer science programs are often represented as ordered trees. What Is Fuzzing? Here we see a successful execution. How can we get there?

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Jibo, the social robot that was supposed to die, is getting a second life

The Verge

That meant its ability to perform many social interactions would wind down on an undefined date, effectively killing Jibo. in 2017 to help it launch its maker program app, which taught kids to code through Jibo. The news devastated owners and sent them spiraling into preemptive mourning. NTT isn’t entirely new to Jibo.

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