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Memory Safe Languages Won’t Save You

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Talk Overview:

If you listen to all the experts, memory-safe languages are the future of cybersecurity. But looking at the modern threat landscape, we see less memory bugs being exploited, even in code written in legacy unsafe languages.

Are memory-safe languages going to fix all security problems (hint: no)? Are they completely useless (hint: also no)? And what should we expect to see from threat actors going forward?

Yarden is a senior security researcher at Trail of Bits and a consultant for Winsider Seminars & Solutions Inc., co-teaching security trainings. Previously she worked at CrowdStrike and SentineOne, working on EDR features and Windows research. Outside of her primary work duties, Yarden writes articles and tools and gives talks about various topics such as Pool internals, CET internals, extension host hooking and kernel exploit mitigations. Outside of infosec, Yarden is a circus artist, teaching and performing aerial arts.
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Yarden is a senior security researcher at Trail of Bits and a consultant for Winsider Seminars & Solutions Inc., co-teaching security trainings. Previously she worked at CrowdStrike and SentineOne, working on EDR features and Windows research. Outside of her primary work duties, Yarden writes articles and tools and gives talks about various topics such as Pool internals, CET internals, extension host hooking and kernel exploit mitigations. Outside of infosec, Yarden is a circus artist, teaching and performing aerial arts.